Annotated List of Chromatography

Web Resources

• Food Color Facts, FDA/IFIC Brochure: January 1993
  Defines color additives and lists the ones used today. Defines other terms and answers common questions. Has all FD&C dyes with scientific names and common uses.
  
• Food Additives, FDA/IFIC: January 1992
  Defines food additives and answers common questions about food additives. Gives reasons why they are used and common uses.
  
• Separation of Food Dyes And Plant Pigments by Paper Chromatography - Experiment 2
  Explains the Retention Factor (R_f) with definition and equation. Gives simple definition and explanation of chromatography.
  
• An Introduction to Chromatography by Patrick McKay
  Gives the background and overview of chromatography. Includes some uses and applications of chromatography.
  
• Color Additives
  Gives a simple overview of color additives and summarizes uses.
  
• From Shampoo to Cereal: Seeing to the Safety of Color Additives by John Henkel
  Tells in-depth history of color additives. Summarizes safety of color additives. Defines color additive terms commonly used.
  
• An Introduction to Chromatography
  Gives a brief history of chromatography and who discovered it.
  
• LC Troubleshooting
  Gives in depth history and explanation of chromatography and the different kinds of chromatography.
  
• Analysis of Mr. Sketch Ink Part #3
  An in-depth explanation of how paper chromatography works. Has diagrams and pictures to explain how separation is made.
  
  
• Kitchen Chemistry, Candy Chromatography by Susan Wells Rollinson,
  Several different at-home chemistry projects to do in the kitchen. Has a simple method of extracting dye from the candy shells.
  

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Disclaimer: These pages were written in 1997 while the author was a sophomore in high school taking AP Chemistry. Hence, the author is not an expert on this subject, she cannot vouch for the accuracy or currency of these data or the links.