Chromatography paper is fairly polar. How would you expect an ionic component to behave when the mobile phase is a relatively nonpolar solvent, such as acetone? Would such a component readily travel with the solvent or would it stay behind? What would change if you used an ionic solvent such as sodium chloride?

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Chromatography paper is fairly polar. How would you expect an ionic component to behave when the mobile phase is a relatively nonpolar solvent, such as acetone? Would such a component readily travel with the solvent or would it stay behind? What would change if you used an ionic solvent such as sodium chloride? 

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