ELUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elution mean? 

• ELUTION (noun)
  The noun ELUTION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ELUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("elution" is a kind of...):

extraction (the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means)

Derivation:

elute (wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography)

 Context examples 

Smaller solutes are included within the particles of the gel matrix more frequently than larger solutes, thus affecting elution rates.

(Gel Filtration Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)