Chromatography Columns
Addition Funnels
Balances
Chromatography Columns
Condensers
Dean-Stark Apparatus
Desiccators
Distillation Receivers
Filtration
Flasks
Fractionating Columns
Lab Jacks
Manometers
Melting Point Apparatus
Pipettes
Rotary Evaporator
Separating Funnels
Soxhlet Extractor
Still Heads
Stoppers and Adapters
Volumetric Analysis
Column chromatography is a technique used for the separation of mixtures. Chromatography columns are designed to be filled with a 'stationary phase' (usually silica gel) and the mixture to be separated is passed through the column with a solvent system. A simple column (1) has to be plugged with a small amount of glass wool to retain the stationary phase, whereas this is unnecessary in a column fitted with a sintered glass support (2).