1. to wash out or extract (a substance) from a material by passing a solvent through it, especially in chromatography or laboratory separation
Usage: chemistry; technical

Examples

• The chemist elutes the sample with a mobile phase to separate the compounds.
• Water elutes the salt from the soil during the experiment.
• The column elutes different proteins at different rates based on their properties.
• Researchers elute the absorbed dye from the filter paper using ethanol.
• The solvent elutes the pigments from the chromatography plate.