An analytical technique for resolution of a chemical mixture into its component compounds. Compounds are separated on an adsorbent paper (stationary phase) by their varied degree of solubility/mobility in the eluting solvent (mobile phase)
Paper chromatography -- Laboratory manuals. : Laboratory handbook of paper and thin-layer chromatography / Jiří Gasparič and Jaroslav Churáček ; translator Želimír Procházka ; translation editor, R.A. Chalmers