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Noun: elution
  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)
    "Elution is a key step in many chromatography techniques"

Derived forms: elutions

Type of: extraction

Encyclopedia: Elution