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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).

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  • Absorption-elution, on the other hand, was about 100 times more sensitive.
  • It was only when he used the hypersensitive absorption-elution method that very low levels showed up.
  • Wegel had told the court that he had performed two separate tests on the crime-scene semen — “absorption-inhibition” and “absorption-elution.”
  • Using the reverse phase system, this elution sequence is broadly in accordance with their polarities: aloe-emodin polar, and physcion, least polar is eluted last.
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