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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Video - Separation of Photosynthetic Pigments by Paper Chromatography

Time lapsed video (around 9 minutes) on the separation of photosynthetic leaf pigments paper chromotagraphy. From bottom to top, the pigments are chlorophyll b, chlorophyll a, xanthophylls, and carotene. The initial mixture was extracted from spinach leaves, and the chromatography solvent is a 9:1 mix of acetone and petroleum ether.




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