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Friday 23 March 2018

seperating a mixture of colourd ink

aim to separate the different pigments in inks or dyes using paper chromatography

equipment
ink- felts
paper
 beaker
pencil
scissors
tap
ice block stick
chromatography

method
1.cut a strip of filter paper that is long enough to reach the bottom of the beaker and able to rap around the pencil


2.rule a line in the bottom of the pice of paper 2cm from the bottom

3.fill your beaker with enough chromatography solution to fill you beaker to about 2cm deep

4.place a dot of ink or pen that on the ruled line on your filer paper















5.suspend the strip of paper from the stick you may need to adhesive tape to stop it from falling in the solution

6. wait and see what happens its important that you do not disturb the beaker

Monday 19 March 2018