verb
- present participle of elute; to wash out or extract a substance from a material, especially in chemistry or laboratory procedures
Usage: technical; chemistry
Examples
- The chemist is eluting the sample through the chromatography column.
- Eluting the pigment from the leaf tissue requires a solvent.
- By eluting with water, we separated the salt from the mixture.
- The lab technician spent hours eluting compounds from the resin.
- Eluting the DNA from the gel requires careful handling of the buffer solution.