Elute (Verb)
Meaning
Wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The weakly bound analytes will elute from the column before the strongly bound ones.
- The sample was washed to elute the interferents prior to analysis.
- The goal of the experiment was to determine which solvent would most effectively elute the ions.
- The solvent selected must be able to elute all the analytes of interest from the column.
- The column temperature was adjusted to elute the solutes as quickly as possible.