ELUTION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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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