Meaning & use
elution
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The process of extracting a substance from a solid material by washing it with a solvent, especially in chemistry.
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The chemist used elution to separate the compounds trapped in the chromatography column.
Elution with a saline solution released the bound antibodies from the resin.
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Elution is central to techniques like chromatography, where a liquid solvent (the "eluent") carries dissolved substances off a solid medium.
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