of this experiment was to take spinach leaves and extract the chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments by using acetone as the solvent. The chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments were extracted by using column chromography and alumina was used as the solvent. Solvents of different polarities were used‚ starting with the least polar‚ to extract the certain components from the leaves. They were then analyzed by using thin- layer chromatography. Procedure: The first part of the experiment dealt with breaking
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THE STUDY OF CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT IN VARIOUS PLANTS A Project Report Submitted by SANDEEP SETHI In partial fulfillment of the CBSE GRADE XII IN BIOLOGY AT 2015-16 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Sandeep Sethi of grade XII‚ ST. XAVIER INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL‚ BHUBANESWAR with Registeration Number _______________________ has satisfactorily completed the project in Biology on STUDY OF CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT IN FIVE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF PLANTS‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements
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E5 & E6 Extraction of Chlorophyll from Fresh Spinach and Investigation of the Photochemistry of Chlorophyll Chlorophyll a Chlorophyll b E5 - Extraction of Chlorophyll from Fresh Spinach E6 - Investigation of the Photochemistry of Chlorophyll The aim of this experiment is to investigate the photochemistry of chlorophyll. This experiment will be performed in two lab periods. In the first lab period you will extract chlorophyll‚ the green pigment in leaves‚ from spinach.
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Chromatographic Separation of Sodium Fluorescein and Methylene Blue In this two-part lab the students will: • Learn the techniques associated with thin layer and column chromatography. • Determine the effects of the stationary phase in separating a mixture by chromatography. • Determine the effects of the mobile phase in separating a mixture by chromatography. • Conduct a separation using column chromatography. In the first week‚ the students will determine the best solvent system for
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Tittle: Separation of leaves pigment. Introduction The photosynthetic pigment is used to absorb light during the process of photosynthesis. There are five pigments usually found in spinach leaves: Carotene (yellow)‚ Phaeophytin (yellow-grey)‚ Xanthophyll (yellow-brown)‚ Chlorophyll a (blue-green)‚ Chlorophyll b(green). Photosynthetic pigment is located in the chloroplast of the leaf. The function of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b is to trap red and blue violet light when they carry out photosynthesis
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Paper chromatography is a useful technique for separating and identifying pigments and other molecules from cell extracts that contain a complex mixture of molecules. The solvent moves up the paper by capillary action‚ which occurs as a result of the attraction of solvent molecules to the paper and the attraction of solvent molecules to one another. As the solvent moves up the paper‚ it carries along any substances dissolved in it. The pigments are carried along at different rates because they
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Submitted: Jan. 9‚ 2013 Separation of Photosynthetic Pigment by Paper Chromatography I. INTRODUCTION There are different types of components in plant pigments. The most important and abundant chemical pigment found in plants is chlorophyll. This pigment exists in two forms; chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. Chlorophyll a‚ being the main photosynthetic pigment‚ has a primary purpose to convert light energy to chemical energy used by the plant itself. Chlorophyll b absorbs light in a region of
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Plant Pigment Chromatography VII. Analysis (Questions) 1. What factors are involved in the separation of pigments? Factors that are involved in the separation of pigments can include pigment solubility‚ the attraction between the pigments and paper and the size of each pigment particle. Because of these factors the results were as they were. Beta-carotene traveled the furthest because it forms no hydrogen bonds to the chromatography paper and is slightly soluble in the solvent. Contrastingly
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Purpose 1. To prepare a dry-packed sample of product mixture of ferrocene and Acetylferrocene 2. To separate and purify the components in the product mixture by column chromatography. 3. To check the purity of the components by thin-layer chromatography (TLC). 4. To calculate the yield of acetylferrocene and the percent recovery of unreacted ferrocene. Table of Quantity showing various physical properties Type of substance Molecular Formula Molecular Weight (g/mol) Density(g/cm3) M.P
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Column and Thin Layer Chromatography: The Separation of Spinach Pigment Abstract Spinach extract was separated into fractions containing compounds of similar polarity by column chromatography. Based on solid-liquid phase partitioning‚ this separation technique exploited the different polarity of the compounds in the spinach extract. Three fractions with different colors were obtained. The extract and its fractions were analyzed using thin layer chromatography (TLC). The TLC results showed that
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