As the solvent soaks up the paper, it carries the mixtures with it. Different components of the mixture will move at different rates. This separates the mixture out.

THE application of paper chromatography to the qualitative separation of phenols and phenolic derivatives has been reported by a number of workers 1. The methods described employ the one ...

This is particularly true of paper chromatography in which more attention is given to controlling temperature as an aid to reproducibility than to using temperature to effect improved resolution.

This is when the molecules are on the chromatography paper, which is a solid.And the mobile phase, when the molecules can move. This is when the molecules are in the solvent, in this case water ...

In the activity below, you can try chromatography to separate colors in a mixture of food coloring ... The reason why the colors separate has to do with the chemicals that make up the color, the water ...