Paper Chromatography

Chromatography:

• Inks, paints and foods tend to contain mixtures of coloured compounds.
• Chromatography can be used to find out what the coloured compounds are.

Paper Chromatography:

• Works because some compounds dissolve better in a solvent than others.
• when a solvent moves along a ***** of paper it carries different substances in that mixture at different speeds, so they are separated.
• The solvent is called the mobile phase.
  
• The paper contains the stationary phase, …