[f. L. ēlutriāt-: see prec. and -ATION.] The action of elutriating.
1661. G. Rust, Origen’s Opin., in Phenix (1721), I. 44. Matter which … after all its … Elutriations … in the Body, is not purg’d from the coarse Tincture it had from its Earthly Original.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, III. 107. I repeted this elutriation or washing and this filtration, till I found the water was no longer affected in taste.
1770–4. A. Hunter, Georg. Ess. (1803), I. 231. Twenty grains … gave, by elutriation, five grains of sand.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med., 17. The simple process of elutriation.
