43 Chromatography | 3. Gary is a crime scene investigator. He finds a message written on the wall at a crime scene, written in blue paint. Three suspects were found nearby, all with blue paint on their clothes. a) He takes samples of paint from the wall and from the three shirts. He then uses chromatography to separate the substances in the paints, The chromatography paper is shown below. Sau oS You can try, e 8 but You'll never catch me.,, a9 Exhibit A: the message 3 = = = Exhibit B: shirt with paint i) What can you tell from these results about the total number of substances present in the paints? ii) Which shirt can be ruled out because it doesn’t have the same paint as the message? Explain why. b) Paint from two of the samples seems to match the paint used for the message. Gary puts the chromatography paper under a UV lamp, showing a new substance. Wall Shirt 1 Shirt 2 Shirt 3 ©) Why does the line the samples start from have to be drawn in pencil and not in pen? ‘Topic 7 — Separating Mixtures