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It has to do with the difference in affinity between the dyes that make up the ink or food coloring and the blotting paper compared to the solvent. This is paper chromatography. The dyes are carried along by the solvent (water) but is attracted to the substrate (the blotting paper). Some inks travel faster than others.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoIt spreads due to capillary action.
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What is it called when ink with water spreads?
Diffusion
How do you remove dry ink from paper?
how do you remote dry ink from paper
How do you wash out ink from paper?
Ink doesn't wash out of paper. If you were to wash it out, the paper would end up falling apart.
How do you separate colored ink from black ink?
Take a black water soluble marker and draw a decent size dot in the middle or a coffee filter. Dip a finger in water and drop a few drops on the dot and watch the colors spread.
How do you get ink off paper?
Buy and ink eraser.To removeinkfrom paper, try dabbing a cotton ball with some rubbing alcohol on the stain.
A drop of ink spreads on a blotting paper?
may be because the paper isn't of good quality
If a drop of ink and a drop of honey are place in water which spreads faster?
Ink is spreaded faster.
Ink from an ordinary fountain pen spreads if water is spilled on pagewritten on paper does not spread when water is spilled on it?
Are you asking why ink spreads and paper doesn't when water is spilled on a page? Ink is water soluble so it dissolves and spreads. Paper is not water soluble (although it will get soggy) so it doesn't dissolve.
Why does a drop of ink spread over a blotting paper?
The reason a drop of ink will spread over blotting paper capillary action.
What will you observe when a drop of ink is added to a beaker filled with water?
You should try it and see. Go to the kitchen, get a clear glass of water, and add a drop of food colouring to it. Or ink, if you have it. It's probably how quick the ink spreads through the water
How do you get ink pen out of microfiber?
A drop of hand sanitizer, rub with a paper towel or cloth.
How does ink jets works?
Ink jet printing used small drop of ink to print onto paper. These dots are extremely small, and print in a dot matrix pattern on the paper. Different colors of ink are combined together to make photograph quality images.
What is it called when ink with water spreads?
Diffusion
How does jets work?
Ink jet printing used small drop of ink to print onto paper. These dots are extremely small, and print in a dot matrix pattern on the paper. Different colors of ink are combined together to make photograph quality images.
How do you remove dry ink from paper?
how do you remote dry ink from paper
Pen is to paper as pen is to?
Ink. Just as a pen writes on a paper with ink, a pen contains ink to write or draw.
DOES AN OCTOPUS TURN WHITE WHEN SCARED?
When a octopus is scared it spreads ink
