Paper Chromatography Experiment

Objectives

• To understand what chromatography is,

• To separate a mixture into its components by paper chromatography,

•  To use paper chromatography to identify components of a mixture.

Curriculum alignments

• NGSS

HS-PS4-3. Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning behind the idea that electromagnetic radiation can be described either by a wave model or a particle model, and that for some situations one model is more useful than the other.

• AP

2.2 Intramolecular Force and Potential Energy

3.9 Separation of Solutions and Mixtures Chromatography

• Cambridge Lower Secondary

8Cp.02 Describe how paper chromatography can be used to separate and identify substances in a sample

• Cambridge GCSE

1,9 Chromatography

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