Separations and Purifications

Fractional distillation

Distillation

Mobile phase

Solvent moving through material (chromatography)

Stationary phase

The phase that does not move in chromatography.

Eluent

Solvent being poured into a chromatography column

Eluate

Fluid exiting chromatography column

Analyte

A substance that is being identified or measured in a laboratory test.

TLC

Column chromatography

Size exclusion chromatography

Ion exchange chromatography

Gas chromatography

solute distance/solvent distance

Rf=

Gel electrophoresis