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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Chromatography?

Also known as: stationary phase · mobile phase · elution

Definition 31.1 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 31 — Chromatography

Chromatography separates the components of a mixture by distributing them between a stationary phase, fixed in a column or on a plate, and a mobile phase, a gas or a liquid that flows past it. Carrying the components through and out of the column with the mobile phase is elution.

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