Associations to the word «Elution»

Wiktionary

ELUTION, noun. (analytical chemistry) The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent.

Dictionary definition

ELUTION, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne