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Describe three different separation processes and identify the physical/chemical/biological principle on which the separation is based.
Chromatography:
Chromatography is a separation technique used to separate the different components in a liquid mixture. It was introduced by a Russian Scientist Michael Tswett. Chromatography involves the sample being dissolved in a particular solvent called mobile phase. The mobile phase may be a gas or liquid. The mobile phase is then passed through another phase called stationary phase. The stationary phase may be a solid packed in a glass plate or a piece of chromatography paper.
The various components of the mixture travel at different speeds, causing them to separate.
Distillation
It based on the principal seperatins the components of mixture containing two miscible liquid that boil without decompsition and have sufficient difference in boiling point.
Extraction
is a separation process which separating substance from matrix. The mixture is brought into contact with the
a solvent in which substance of interest is soluble but other substance is insoluble.