verb
- to wash out or extract (a substance) from a material by passing a solvent through it, especially in chromatography
Usage: chemistry; technical
Examples
- The chemist used water to elute the dye from the chromatography column.
- In the lab, we eluted the protein sample with a salt solution.
- The solvent elutes the pigment from the paper during the separation process.
- Researchers eluted the absorbed compounds by increasing the solvent concentration.
- To elute the sample, they passed ethanol through the column.