eluate

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In chemistry, elute means to extract or remove a substance from another material using a solvent. The substance removed is called the eluate. This process is commonly used in elution chromatography, where a solute moves through a system and is detected as it emerges.123

A solution is a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances. In a solution, the liquid component is typically called the solvent, and the substance dissolved in it is the solute. Elution chromatography utilizes these concepts by separating components of a mixture based on their differing affinities for the stationary and mobile phases.43

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Elution chromatography
…in the emerging mobile-phase stream—the eluate—and transduces the signal, most often to a voltage, which is registered as a peak on a strip-chart recorder. The recorder trace where solute is absent is the baseline. A plot of the solute concentration along the migration coordinate of development chromatograms yields a similar…
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…in the emerging mobile-phase stream—the eluate—and transduces the signal, most often to a voltage, which is registered as a peak on a strip-chart recorder. The recorder trace where solute is absent is the baseline. A plot of the solute concentration along the migration coordinate of development chromatograms yields a similar…
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