elute
/ɪˈluːt/
verb
- To wash out or remove (a substance) from a solid material by using a solvent, especially in chemistry or biology.
- To purify the sample, you must elute the unwanted salts with distilled water.
- The lab technician used a special solution to elute the protein from the chromatography column.
- The scientist eluted the DNA fragments from the gel for further analysis.