Answer to Question #169113 in General Chemistry for Nasrin Akthar

Question

A student has a green dye mixture on which she performs a TLC experiment with a silica gel plate and acetone as the solvent. She obtains a yellow spot with an Rf of 0.75 and a teal spot with an Rf of 0.45. Explain the significance of her data.

Answer 1

In a TLC experiment, if no spots are seen then it might be due to the following reasons: It might be that the concentration of the sample might be too low. ... Re-conduct the experiment with right amount of solvent.