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The term chromatography is used to describe a range of practical techniques for the separation of mixtures into pure molecular species. These techniques are of special interest to the biologist, since such separations have made possible the isolation in a pure form of most of the molecules which play such a vital part in the functioning of living organisms. In fact, the technique of chromatography was developed by a botanist—Tswett—over sixty years ago for the separation of plant pigment mixtures. The technique he developed (adsorption chromatography) is now only one of a range of separation methods available to a modern biochemist. This range of techniques is summarized in Table 6.1.
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Dawber, J.G., Moore, A.T. (1980). Chromatography and spectroscopy. In: Chemistry for the Life Sciences. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16250-5_6
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