Paper Chromatography

Paper Chromatography

What food dyes are in your candy? Is black ink really black? What gives fall leaves their color? These are all questions that you can investigate using paper chromatography – a technique that can separate mixtures into their individual components. Check out Explore How Chromatography Can Unmix Mixtures for the written instructions.

Topics

  • liquid chromatography
  • classroom activity
  • paper chromatography
  • affinity chromatography
  • polarity
  • solubility
  • mobile phase
  • stationary phase
  • affinity
  • candy chromatography
  • colors
  • dye
  • mixture
  • chromatography paper