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The most common form of chromatography is adsorption chromatography in which the stationary phase is a solid such as alumina or silica gel. The sample substance to be separated is applied at one end of this stationary phase and the mobile phase is allowed to flow through. Thin layer chromatography is based on this fact that the capillary action in the finely divided stationary phase causes the mobile phase to move.
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Malhotra, P. (2023). Thin Layer Chromatography. In: Analytical Chemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26757-4_14
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