Elution Development in Thin Layer Chromatography

Marcel Dekker, Ini 270 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 1001 

The complexity of the system increases with the number of solvents used and, of course, their relative concentrations. The process can be simplified considerably by pre-conditioning the plate with solvent vapor from the mobile phase before the separation is started. Unfortunately, this only partly reduces the adsorption effect, as the equilibrium between the solvent vapor and the adsorbent surface will not be the 

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