Lithium and Francium, they are both in the sane group therefore share similar characteristics
Answer:
Paper chromatography would separate the pigments into several bands that appear green or yellow/orange.
Explanation:
Chloroplasts have a mixture of pigments with different colors: intense green chlorophyll-a, green chlorophyll-b, yellow carotenes and orange-yellow xanthophylls, in different proportions. All these substances have a different degree of solubility in non-polar solvents, which allows their separation when a solution of them ascends by capillarity through a porous paper strip, vertically arranged on a film of an organic solvent, where the most soluble move faster, and the less soluble move less on the filter paper strip. Therefore, several bands of different colors will appear that will be more or less distant from the solution according to the greater or lesser solubility of the pigments.
The sulphate solutions came from a recycling LIBs waste cathode materials, which were done by previous research; their content is shown in Table 1 [18]. Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) was purchased from Nihon Shiyaku Reagent, Tokyo, Japan (NaCO3, 99.8%), for the chemical precipitation. CO2 was purchased from Air Product and Chemical, Taipei, Taiwan (CO2 ≥ 99%), to carry out the hydrogenation–decomposition method. Dowex G26 was obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA) and was used as a strong acidic cation exchange resin, to remove impurities. Multi-elements ICP standard solutions were acquired from AccuStandard, New Haven, Connecticut State, USA. The nitric acid (HNO3) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4) were acquired from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA) (HNO3 ≥ 65%) (H2SO4 ≥ 98%) The materials were analyzed by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS; XFlash6110, Bruker, Billerica, MA, USA), X-ray diffraction (XRD; DX-2700, Dangdong City, Liaoning, China), scanning electron microscopy (SEM; S-3000N, Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan), and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES; Varian, Vista-MPX, PerkinElmer, Waltham, MA, USA). In order to
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control the hydrogenation temperature and heating rate, a thermostatic bath (XMtd-204;