The phrase "and rotated in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing an action involving rotation, often in technical or scientific writing.
Example: "The object was placed on the platform and rotated in a clockwise direction to achieve the desired alignment."
Alternatives: "and turned in a" or "and spun in a".
To ensure uniform deposition, substrates are positioned on a turntable and rotated in a manner similar to the planetary rotation.
The small bowel was run and rotated in a counterclockwise fashion.
In the next step (b), the benzene ring is added and rotated in a perpendicular orientation with respect to the initial fragment.
Renske Smit, from the University of Cambridge, and colleagues, used the Alma array in Chile to show that the gas in these newborn galaxies swirled and rotated in a whirlpool motion, similar to the Milky Way and other, more mature, galaxies much later in the Universe's history.
A heavy cast iron system floated and rotated in a bath of mercury, which acted as a bearing.
Superimposition of helices α8 and α9 and their two-fold mates, which together form the dimerization interface and do not move in response to either DNA or drug binding, indicated that the distal ends of helices α4 and α7 of each hexagonal conformer were tilted and rotated in a counter-clockwise direction (CCD) relative to the tetragonal form (Figures 1B C).
It is first ground into mince and then steamed and rotated in an oven angled like a cement mixer so that the juices run off.
Coyly called Mal 1956 — "mal" is the Dutch word for "mold," and it also means "silly," Mr. Wildenberg said — the chair and accompanying ottoman are made of polyethylene powder that has been heated and rotated in an aluminum mold.
Early vertical-shaft water mills drove querns where the wheel, containing radial vanes or paddles and rotating in a horizontal plane, could be lowered into the stream.
Particle trajectories are evaluated using the equations of motion for a rigid ellipsoid translating and rotating in a turbulent flow field.
By controlling the coils, the microrobot can move and rotate in a microfluidic chip.
