elutriate in English
verb
1
separate (lighter and heavier particles in a mixture) by suspension in an upward flow of liquid or gas.
In the laboratory, the material from each core retained on the 250 - [micro] m mesh was elutriated in supersaturated sucrose solution to remove juvenile macrofauna and sediments were sorted to remove larger macrofauna.
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