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How do pigments separate?

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What procedure did you to separate plant pigments?

Paper chromatography can be used to separate pigments in plants. The pigments are separated into chlorophylls (greenish colors) and carotenoids (yellowish colors).


What pigments will you find if you separate the pigments found in a typical plant cell's chloroplasts?

blue


If you separate the pigments found in a typical plant cell's chloroplasts what will you find?

Green, Orange, and Red Pigments.


How do you separate different pigments from an extract of petals?

place the flower petals in a mortar and pour alcohol on it the grind it with a pistil to extract the pigments


What are some applications for chromatography?

To separate the substance from rare abundanceto separate pigments from natural substanceto separate color pigment in dyesto identify drugs from blood


What is the purpose of the solvent in chromatography?

The basic purpose of the solvent is to move the pigments up the chromatography paper through capillary action so that the pigments can be separated. The basic importance of chromatography is to separate different solvents by their molar mass. In doing so, one can separate the different pigments within a solution and measure how much of each pigment is present.


Why do the pigments separate during column chromatography?

Because the retention coefficients of different substances are also different.


What method can be used to separate the colours of a leaf?

In order for a biologist to sepearate leaf pigments, he should use chromatography. Hope this helps because I too, had to answer a question just like this for biology!


The laboratory technique is used to separate the different pigments in a green leaf?

Paper Chromatogpraphy- answered by Erick Rosales


What procedure did you use to separate plant pigments?

Place leaf in beaker and heat with Bunsen burner until water has discolored and boiled, then place leaf in test tube filled methylated spirits and place in same beaker as before with the burner turned OFF. Methylated spirits boils at around 80 degrees Celsius so when placed in heated water it will boil. This process will separate the chlorophyll (pigment) in the leaf.


Chromatography separates a mixture of?

Chromatography separates a mixture of pigments, usually in inks. You can separate colours in food and felt tips. The different solubilities of the different ink pigments, make some rise above others so you can see them clearly.


Are photosynthetic pigments and accessory pigments the same?

Photosynthetic pigments yes