Meaning & use
Elute
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To extract or remove an absorbed substance by washing it out with a solvent, especially in chromatography.
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The technician used a saline buffer to elute the bound proteins from the column.
Researchers eluted the DNA fragments before running them through gel electrophoresis.
A note on using this word
A specialized laboratory term from Latin "eluere" ("to wash out"), used almost exclusively in chemistry and biochemistry contexts like chromatography.
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