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Why is water not the best solvent to use in paper chromatography?
LisaAllen
acetone or butanol
That totally depends on the solute you are trying to separate. Methylene Chloride generally works much better as an all around solvent due to its mild polarity and organic functional groups. Acetone won't work at all if you have 2 polar solutes. They will travel with the solvent front and not separate at all! In other words, it depends on your solute.
Cheers,
Ty
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∙ 7y agoWater is considered "the universal solvent", so many, many compounds are soluble in water. This makes it a good solvent especially because even though many compounds are soluble in water, they do not have the SAME solubility, so they can be separated by chromatography.
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∙ 14y agoWater is used as a solvent for chromatography. I just dont' know why.
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∙ 14y agoIt makes paper swell up and ultimately dissolve. That's bad.
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∙ 11y agoNot all substances are water-soluble.
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∙ 10y agoA duck.
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