Experimenting
with various separation techniques (e.g. electrophoresis) |
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Introduction:
Most organic materials found in nature, extracted from plants or from other live organisms are
not pure. Instead, they are a mixture of two or more organic
substances. In order to identify each organic substance we first
need to separate them and get pure samples of each substance. We
can then use other techniques to identify each substance based on
it's chemical and physical properties. |
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Depending on the type of chemicals,
different methods may be used for separation. Among these methods are:
Chromatography, electrophoresis, crystallization, filtration and others.
Electrophoresis is the method used to separate chemicals using
electricity.
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Project
description:
In this project you will experiment and try to improve one of the electrophoresis
separation techniques. Some material needed for your experiment needs to
be purchased. An estimated budget of $40 is required. |
Details
of this project
More details or support for this project is available for the
members of ScienceProject.com web site. Material
needed for experiment or a science kit about this title may be
available at MiniScience.com. |
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