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A process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency
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chromatography
Word definitions for chromatography in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) Any of various techniques for the qualitative or quantitative separation of the components of mixtures of compounds; all characterised by the use of a mobile phase (gas or liquid) moving relative to a stationary phase (liquid ...
Wikipedia
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Chromatography (; from Greek χρῶμα chroma which means "color" and γράφειν graphein "to write") is the collective term for a set of laboratory techniques for the separation of mixtures . The mixture is dissolved in a fluid called the mobile phase, which ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chromatography \Chro`ma*tog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, color + -graphy.] A treatise on colors [archaic] (Chem.) an analytical and preparative technique for separating substances by differences in their selective adsorption to solids, by passing a liquid over ...
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n. a process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1731, from chromato- , Latinized comb. form of Greek khroma (genitive khromatos ) "color" (see chroma ), denoting "color" or "chromatin" + -graphy . Related: Chromatograph .
Usage examples of chromatography.
EGIS uses high-speed gas chromatography and chemiluminescent detection systems to identify explosives residue.
Equipment ranging from simple column chromatography setups to sophisticated liquid scintillation counters sat atop the counter, alongside agar-filled petri dishes and folded nitrocellulose filters.
Under both the common EMIT drug screen and the more sophisticated gas chromatography mass spectrometry, my urine tested positive.
The tube is the size of the Svedberg centrifuge and chromatography equipment combined.
It also included the toxicology section with the gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy graphs.
Gas chromatography followed by electron-bombardment, with spectrometer readings on the resultant mass-fragments.
Attempts to trace the matrix of the samizdat without viewing it from induction on postal codes, e-micros-copíes on the brown padded mailers, immolation and chromatography on the unlabelled cartridge-cases, extensive and maddening interviews of those civilians exposed place the likely dissemination-point someplace along the U.
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Sickert's grease paints and paints from his studio would not have eluded the scanning electron microscope, the ion microprobe, the x-ray diffractometer, or thin-layer chromatography, to list a few of the resources available now.
Microscopy, infrared spectrophotometry, pyrolysis-gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, x-ray fluorescence, and neutron activation analysis were not required to figure out that much.
The broth of chemicals this produces is then fed into a sophisticated purification system, based mainly on electrophoresis and affinity chromatography, and many valuable substances are extracted.
The tape probably also shows photographs of the chromatography of the different components of the cancer cell genetic constituents.
Once, when she lay down to wait for solvent to wash out a chromatography column, she dove into a most familiar need nightmare.
She had oohed and ahhed over a generous assortment of electron microscopes, incubators, radiation counters, test tubes, petri dishes, titration setups, gas chromatography equipment, MRI scanners, and other apparatus she couldn’.
The instrument that was the closest was the giant gas chromatography unit, and Victor decided that he’.