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Digital ACT Science Practice Question #1494

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A botany student analyzed spinach leaf pigments using paper chromatography with petroleum ether solvent: - Solvent front distance: 10.0 cm - Carotene: 9.5 cm (Rf = 0.95) - Xanthophyll: 7.1 cm (Rf = 0.71) - Chlorophyll a: 4.5 cm (Rf = 0.45) - Chlorophyll b: 2.8 cm (Rf = 0.28) Which pigment has the greatest affinity for the nonpolar solvent relative to the polar cellulose paper?
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Highest Rf (0.95) = greatest affinity for solvent = Carotene.

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Pigments with higher Rf values travel farther because they have greater solubility in the mobile nonpolar solvent. Carotene traveled farthest (9.5 cm, Rf = 0.95)....

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