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ELUTION
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I. (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)
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