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Lipid Chromatography Lab

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We are testing for the presence of lipids, the amount and how polar they are. The bigger the dot, the higher the concentration and the farther the dot the more nonpolar it is. A positive test for lipid chromatography appears to have phospholipids, fatty acids and triglycerides in that order on the powdered strip while a negative test appears to not have those three in that order or even have all those three show up. We tested chromatography solvent and placed it on the silica gel strip. Our hypothesis was that the nonpolar molecules in the solvent would move up farther from the solvent causing the Triglycerides to be at the top of the paper but the polar molecules would move slower causing the phospholipids to stay at the bottom of the paper.

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