Question

Which is the basis of thin-layer chromatography?

Answer 1

Answer:

B.) The drug gets carried through a stationary phase by a mobile phase and the retention time identifies the drug.

Explanation:

Chromatography is used in purifying complex mixtures of organic compounds. It uses the adsorption tendencies of compounds to seperate and identify them.

Chromatography is made up of two phases in contact, the stationary phase or non-mobile phase and the mobile phase. The movement of the mobile phase over the stationary phase causes the separation of a mixture into its constituents.

The stationary phase is made up of silica-gel or alumina in a solvent (an adsorbent) and the mobile phase or carrier is the organic solvent which is the drug.