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INSTITUTO DE PSICOPEDAGOGIA

INTEGRAL

“SCIENCE FAIR”
Project:

Chromatography

Mariana Gómez Bermúdez

2nd grade

2007
MATERIALS

5 colored candies

15 paper narrow strips


1 plastic dish

1 dropper

Water

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PROCEDURE
Put you the colored candies with the same
color in the dish and add you some water
drops over each one.

The color will separate from the candies.


Take off the candies.

Put you one extreme of the narrow strips


in the colored water to wet the paper and
the other extreme out it.

Look at the results. The colored water


rises in the paper.

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RESULTS

We can get from one color some different


colors in each paper strip

CONCLUSIONS

Many dietary colorants are really a mix of


some colorants. We can separate them
with water and paper using a technique
called CHROMATOGRAPHY.

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