elute

Dissolve and remove

Elute is a chemistry term meaning to wash out or extract a substance by passing solvent through a material.

In chromatography, you elute compounds from a column to separate them: The sample was eluted with methanol.

The noun elution refers to this process, and the liquid that emerges is the eluate.

purification

extract

Concentrated derived substance

concentrate · desalt · remove · release · displace · strip · leach · rinse · clarify · refine

chromatography

solvent

Dissolving liquid or financially stable

  • soluteSubstance absorbed by solvent
  • columnVertical structural element
  • analyteSubstance being measured

fraction · gradient · peak · separation · partitioning · selectivity · resolution · baseline · breakthrough · effluent

technique

adsorption

Accumulation on a surface

detection · recovery · collection · buffer · affinity

Opposites
chromatographic process direction

eluteadsorb

Collect on a surface

bind · retain · immobilize · load · absorb

phase transition/separation outcome

eluteprecipitate

Headlong and reckless

deposit · adsorb · crystallize · sediment · coagulate

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