International School of Palmela

Separating the colors in ink

Made by: Saad, Shakib, Saied and Ahmed

11/01/2022
Aim:
Our aim in this project is to see if our inks are
pure or not and to check if our inks are
soluble.

Materials:
We need Chromatography paper or filter
paper, beaker, water, pencil and ruler, glass
rod or wooden spill, ink or a pen, other inks
or food dyes and pipette if you are using
liquid ink.

Procedure:
 Take a strip of chromatography paper.
Draw a pencil line about 1 cm

 Place a spot of ink on the pencil line. The

spot should be as small as possible.
 Dry the spot then add a little bit more ink.

 Place about 2cm depth of water in a

beaker.
 Hang the paper over a glass rod, pencil or
wooden spill so that the end with the ink
is just in the water. Make sure the ink spot
stays above the level of the water.

 Watch what happens as the water moves

up the strip of paper.

 Remove the strip of paper before the

water reaches the top. You need to be
careful as the wet paper can tear easily.

 Allow the strip to dry. This is your

chromatogram.
Results:
These are our result

Conclusion:
Our conclusion is that we got our aim
achieved and we did a great job, we followed
all the procedure, in our opinion next time we
would more ink and alcohol so we can get
better results.