eluter

English

Etymology

From elute +‎ -er.

Noun

eluter (plural eluters)

  1. (chemistry) Something that elutes; a solvent or mechanism for separating out or removing a chemical substance from another.
    • 2009, Jack Cazes, Encyclopedia of Chromatography, page 43:
      In Fig. 2a, where the aqueous phase was used as the mobile phase and HCl as the eluter, the alkaloids were eluted as HCl salts, while in Fig. 2b, where the organic phase is used as mobile phase and triethylamine as the eluter, the alkaloids were eluted as free bases.
    • 2019, Nelu Grinberg, Sonia Rodriguez, Ewing's Analytical Instrumentation Handbook, page 833:
      pH-Zone-refining CCC uses a set of reagents (i.e., a retainer in the stationary phase and an eluter in the mobile phase). For the separation of acidic solutes, TFA is most often used as the retainer acid and NH<aub>3 as the eluter base. For basic samples, triethylamine is used as the retainer base and HCL as the eluter acid.
    • 2023, Timothy C. Frank, Bruce S. Holden, Industrial Chemical Separation:
      As a result, fast eluters move in one direction in the loop and slow eluters effectively move in the opposite direction.

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