Chromatography

One mixture, one mobile phase, and molecules that arrive at different times. The strip, the plate, the column and the surface they are all sliding along are here together, because the separation is the same event at four scales.

Retention from a four-descriptor free-energy model
fitted to published RF and k data

The experiment 00:00

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Time

Where everything ends up

click a band to follow that compound

Readout

    Held by the surface
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    Moving with the solvent
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    Where the molecule spends its time—

      More numbers, and the checks

        At molecular scale

        How this panel is drawn, and what it leaves out

        What you are looking at

        Why the four formats differ

        What makes reversed phase reversed

        The numbers behind it

        Every value, and where it came from