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ELUTE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they elute ... he / she / it elutes
Past simple: eluted
Past participle: eluted
-ing form: eluting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "elute" is one way to...):
rinse; wash (clean with some chemical process)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
elution (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)
