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How Is Chromatography Used In Industry?

Chromatography is used in industrial processes to purify chemicals, test for trace amounts of substances, separate chiral compounds and test products for quality control.

Column Chromatography Finds Use in Purifying Antibiotics

Introduction Column Chromatography is mainly employed in the separation of different compounds of a mixture. This method makes use of an adsorbent like silica gel, alumina or cellulose to adsorb different compounds at different levels, thus making the separation complete. When column chromatography was first discovered in 1897, it was mainly used to understand the various...