CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chromatography column mean? 

• CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMN (noun)
  The noun CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMN has 1 sense:

1. a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands

  Familiarity information: CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chromatography column; column

Hypernyms ("chromatography column" is a kind of...):

tube; tubing (conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases)

 Context examples 

An instrument that can collect the eluate from a chromatography column in discrete parts.

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