The term " isopycnic " is also encountered in biophysical chemistry, usually in reference to a process of separating particles, subcellular organelles, or other substances on the basis of their density.
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The term " isopycnic " is commonly encountered in the fluid dynamics of compressible fluids, such as in meteorology and geophysical fluid dynamics, astrophysics, or the fluid dynamics of explosions or high Mach number flows.
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Caesium chloride is widely used medicine structure in isopycnic centrifugation for separating various types of DNA . It is a reagent in analytical chemistry, where it is used to identify ions by the color and morphology of the precipitate.
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Unless there is a flux of mass into or out of a control volume, a process which occurs at a constant density also occurs at a constant volume and is called an isochoric process and not an isopycnic process.
