See Also: Chromatography(medicine)
chromatography, gel(medicine)
chromatography, gas(medicine)
Chromatography, gas (GC)(health)
Gas chromatography (GC)(health)
chromatography(dictionary)
gas chromatography(medicine)
chromatography(encyclopedia)
gas chromatography (GC)(encyclopedia)
gas-liquid chromatography(medicine)

chromatography (iou)



chromatography noun. M18.
[from CHROMATO- + -GRAPHY: sense 2 from German Chromatographie.]
1. The description of colours. Now rare or obsolete. M18.
2. Any of various methods of chemical separation or analysis which depend on the different rates of passage of the components of a mixture through a sorbent medium (the sample being dissolved in a solvent or carried in a gas). M20.
paper chromatography: see PAPER noun & adjective.
? So named because in the earliest chromatographic separations the result was displayed as a number of coloured bands or spots.
chromatographic adjective of, pertaining to, or involving chromatography E20.
chromato'graphical adjective = chromatographic M20.
chromato'graphically adverb M20.