Barring the use of very expensive automatic monitoring equipment, the successful separation of colorless substances requires some means of screening the eluate fractions so that those of like composition may be combined. This process is customarily accomplished by thin-layer chromatography (TLC). We describe here a novel TLC development chamber that greatly enhances the efficiency of this task.
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