Question

What are the different types of chromatography?

Answer 1

Explanation about chromatography:

1. This technique was introduced by M. S. Tsvet, a Russian botanist in 1906.
2. It is a method based on the difference in the rate of adsorption of various components of a mixture on a suitable adsorbent.
3. This technique involves a mobile phase and a stationary phase.
4. Mobile phase is made to run through the stationary phase.

Types of chromatography:

There are four types of chromatography namely. The stationary phases used in these types of chromatic techniques are different.

1. Paper chromatography
2. Column chromatography
3. Thin layer chromatography
4. Gas chromatography