Chemistry equilibrium

Chemistry equilibrium

Recently, teacher taught us about chemistry equilibrium. One of its main applications is ion exchange chromatography. Chromatography is a very common technique in the chemical laboratory and perhaps the most important technique we will learn in this course. There are many different ways to do chromatography, two of which were presented in Chemistry. The power of chromatopraphic techniques stems from the ability to separate materials based on rather small differences in chemical or physical properties. We saw how thin layer chromatography and paper chromatography rely on differences in solubilities to achieve separation. With this experiment we can see how equilibrium chemistry can be used for the same purpose with the technique known as ion exchange chromatography.