(verb) To extract one material from another by means of chromatography The carrier phase is the chemical solvent that elutes the mixture of materials being separated by chromatography
to elute something is to wash it away by a solvent Also, to elute something means to make it go out of the column in liquid (or gas) chromatography (one also says that something "elutes" as it exits the column)
The act of separating one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse