Elution

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  • n. The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A washing out; any process by which bodies are separated by the action of a solvent; specifically, a process of recovering sugar from molasses, which consists in precipitating the sugar as sucrate of lime, insoluble in cold water, and washing it free from soluble impurities.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
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    extraction   
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    desorption   
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