Traditional medicines based on plants and plant extracts are widely used in several countries. However, the active components in many such medicines are unknown. In such cases, thin layer ...

Chromatography is relied on by many disciplines as a method of separating the components of a mixture. The basic idea of the process is that distinct compounds have different levels of solubility, ...

The wide range of chromatographic techniques share one common aim: to separate a material into its components. A material, your sample, is dissolved in a solvent, called the mobile phase. This mixture ...

A conditioning process is applied to guarantee consistency from plate to plate, lot to lot, and chemist to chemist. The user can prevent having to retest their sample or risk the compound decomposing ...