Dr. Honig helped advance the technology by showing that lasers could be used to separate particles from some materials for analysis.

The Battelle breath analyzer uses a mass spectrometer, a device that separates particles by weight.

The process of separating unwanted particles (such as dead yeast cells or fining agents) from the wine by use of centrifugal force.

Knowing particle momentum, one can separate particles lighter than a certain threshold from those heavier than the threshold.

Drywasher - A mechanical apparatus used for separating free particles of placer gold from dry sediments.

The model separates fundamental particles into three great classes: quarks and leptons, which are the subatomic building blocks of matter, and bosons.

An air elutriator is a simple device which can separate particles into two or more groups.

Filtration is used to separate particles and fluid in a suspension, where the fluid can be a liquid, a gas or a supercritical fluid.

Smaller cyclones are used to separate airborne particles for analysis.

Some are small enough to be worn clipped to clothing, and are used to separate respirable particles for later analysis.