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What is an eluent?

The fluid that passes through filter paper during filtration
An immiscible phase during extraction
The mobile phase during column chromatography
The stationary phase during column chromatography

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your answer is (The fluid that passes through filter paper during filtration)

‘Chromatography’ is an analytical technique commonly used for separating a mixture of chemical substances into its individual components, so that the individual components can be thoroughly analyzed. There are many types of chromatography e.g., liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography, affinity chromatography, but all of these employ the same basic principles.

Chromatography is a separation technique that every organic chemist and biochemist is familiar with. I, myself, being an organic chemist, have routinely carried out chromatographic separations of a variety of mixture of compounds in the lab. In fact, I was leafing through my research slides and came across a pictorial representation of an actual chromatographic separation that I had carried out in the lab. I guess that picture would be a good starting point for this tutorial!

Let me first explain what I was trying to do here. I had two reactants ‘A’ and ‘B’. I let them react with each other, under certain reaction conditions, to form a product ‘C’. After the reaction was complete, I ended up with a reaction mixture that contained unreacted A, unreacted B and my desired product C. Now my task was to separate out A, B and C to isolate and analyze pure product C.

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