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Elution

//əˈl(j)uːʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent. countable, uncountable

    "The quicker the alkali salts are removed during elution, the less chance will there be of forming insoluble lime salts, consequently the melassate which offers the greatest surface to the action of the alcohol will be best and quickest washed."

  2. 2
    the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions wordnet

Etymology

From the verb elute.

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