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It is a valuable tool used by chemists to identify chemical components or biological materials that might be clues to a crime. Chromatography is a way of separating chemicals from one another. One of those chemicals might shed light on the crime or provide investigators with leads or answers useful in solving the crime.

Chromatography was developed by a Russian botanist in 1906 to study plant pigments. Then chemists realized it was an excellent way to study all kinds of complex mixtures. Forensic science jumped all over that one in order to identify unknown samples from a crime scene! Win-win!

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