Paper chromatography is an important separation technique that depends upon differences in how strongly the dyes are adsorbed onto the paper (stationary phase) and how soluble the dyes are in the developing solvent (mobile phase). In paper chromatography‚ a small amount of the mixture to be separated is placed close to the edge of a piece of paper. The edge of the paper is then immersed in a developing solution. As the developing solution ascends up the paper by capillary action‚ the. components
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Introduction Paper chromatography is a method using a chromatography paper to identify the many mixtures of one simple color. The word chromatography comes from the Greek words‚ "chroma‚" meaning color‚ and "grafein‚" meaning to write. The process of this experiment is to place a colored dot‚ such as marker ink‚ onto the chromatography paper‚ one centimeter away from the triangular tip. Next dip your chromatography paper into the solvent‚ not allowing it to touch the colored dot. Let it sit for
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Problem: Why do leaves change color in the fall? Background: Leaves contain many pigments such as chlorophyll b‚ xanthophyll‚ and beta carotene besides chlorophyll a. They are part of the photosystem in the thylakoids. Pigment molecules can be separated by a procedure called chromatography. The procedure uses a special paper and solvent. The chlorophyll molecules adhere to the paper. The solvent molecules move up the paper by capillary action. Each chlorophyll molecule will travel up the paper at
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results did not support the hypothesis. Referring to table‚ one can see that blue caused both the spinach and radish plant to grow the most and that green light cause the plants to grow less. Spinach is a long-day plant therefore it was able to grow better under a constant light source. This would have aided in the plant growing faster than other forms of plant species. When experimenting with the spinach plant blue light worked exceedingly well in making the plant grow faster with there being a decent
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OBJECTIVES: The objective of this experiment was to extract plant leaf pigments and determining them by using the Rf values obtained from the paper chromatography technique. The hypothesis of the experiment was that all of the five listed pigments would be present in the extracted plant leaf according to the Rf values. PROCEDURE/APPARATUS: The equipments used were a 18 x 150 mm test tube with stopper‚ graduated cylinders‚ Erlenmeyer flask‚ mortar and pestle‚ metric ruler‚ tall jar‚ acetone‚ tiny
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Search the web. Some interesting sites are listed below. Note that some of these sites go into much more depth than is reasonable for this course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatography http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/analytical/Chromatography/ http://orgchem.colorado.edu/hndbksupport/TLC/TLC.html this is for TLC – similar to paper http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Chromatography_paper.html http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/Programs/CPL/Sample/modules/paprchrom/paprchromdesc
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Liquid Chromatography Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to separate substances based on their polarity by using liquid chromatography. Data Table: Red Dye Blue Dye Run#1 Run#2 Run#3 Run#1 Run#2 Run#3 Start of Band(mL) 1.50 2.20 1.00 2.70 3.00 2.00 End of Band(mL) 2.70 3.00 2.00 6.40 5.50 6.00 Beaker Eluant Observations 1 H2O White powder 2 5%isopropyl Red powder 3 28%isopropyl Blue powder 4 70%isopropyl Oily residual Calculations: W = Vend – Vstart
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Collecting Photosynthetic Rates in Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) Introduction: The purpose of this study was to see which light color would cause the spinach sample to photosynthesize the most within the given time. In order to understand photosynthesis‚ we need to know that chloroplasts absorb light energy from the sun‚ the plant then takes that energy along with water and carbon dioxide and changes it to sugar and oxygen. This happens in order for the plants to grow. But‚ light energy comes in a
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Title:The Chromatography Process of Expo Markers Abstract:This experiment is to uncover whether or not the Expo Markers are homogeneous or heterogeneous mixtures. The experiment will conduct filter paper being slightly submerged in a container of water and inspected for pigmentation changes. In the experiment the pigments will rise up the filter paper once exposed to the water (solvent). After the experiment‚ it concludes that the mixture is a homogeneous mixture due to the chemical
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A Spectrophotometric Analysis of the Absorption of Green Light Versus Red Light Absorption in Spinach Leaves The goal of the experiment was to determine if green light had less ability to absorb than red light in spinach leaves. This was done by separating the photosynthetic pigments (chlorophyll a‚ chlorophyll b‚ carotene and xanthophylls) from one another using paper chromatography. The separated pigments were then analyzed for their absorption spectrum using a spectrographometer. When the
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