CHROMATOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chromatography mean? 

• CHROMATOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun CHROMATOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. a process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency

  Familiarity information: CHROMATOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHROMATOGRAPHY (noun)

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Meaning:

A process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("chromatography" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chromatography"):

column chromatography (chromatography that uses selective adsorption by a column of powders)

paper chromatography (chromatography that uses selective adsorption on a strip of paper)

Derivation:

chromatographical (of or relating to chromatography)

 Context examples 

Chromatography on non-ionic gels without regard to the mechanism of solute discrimination.

(Gel Filtration Chromatography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Rapidly dividing cells, as in the case of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), can be labeled with deuterium oxide and measured using gas chromatography and/or mass spectrometry.

(Deuterium Oxide, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of liquid chromatography where the solvent flow and composition is controlled by pumps.

(Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)

Gel permeation or sieve chromatography that is performed on porous gels that separate solutes on the basis of size.

(Gel Filtration Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)

Affinity chromatography using monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies, or (less commonly) antigens, as the immobilized binding phase.

(Immunoaffinity Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)

An analytical technique wherein liquid chromatography is coupled to mass spectrometry in order to separate, identify, and quantify substances in a sample.

(Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It is commonly measured by its distribution behavior in a biphasic system, either liquid-liquid or solid-liquid, or thin-layer chromatography system. (from Pure Appl. Chem., 70, 1129-1143 (1998))

(Lipophilicity, NCI Thesaurus)

The Analytical Biochemistry Shared Resource provides chemistry services featuring mass spectrometry, chromatography, organic synthesis, and analytical biochemistry.

(Analytical Biochemistry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

An instrument that can collect the eluate from a chromatography column in discrete parts.

(Fraction Collector, NCI Thesaurus)

An analytical technique wherein high performance liquid chromatography is coupled to mass spectrometry in order to separate, identify, and quantify substances in a sample.

(High Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)