noun
- Plural of elutriaor; devices or machines used to separate particles of different sizes or densities by washing or floating in a liquid.
Usage: technical; used in chemistry, geology, and materials science
Examples
- The laboratory uses elutriators to separate fine clay particles from coarser sand.
- Industrial elutriators help classify minerals by density in ore processing.
- The chemist calibrated the elutriators before beginning the particle separation experiment.
- Modern elutriators can achieve precise size fractionation of powdered materials.