Question

5) Two cars full of people took a day trip. Car A had a lot of little kids and stopped at lots of rest stops and
gas stations to give them a break. Car B had just adults in it, and only stopped once. Of course Car B got
to the destination first. Explain how this in an analogy for the chromatography you are doing in this analogy for the experiment of chromatography

Answer 1

if you consider this analogy for the chromatography

where we can consider the compounds that are more polar as kids which interact with the polar surface of silica and stops a lot so reach the destination after the less polar compounds which interact less with the polar silica surface hence stop fewer times like an adults car and reach the destination first.

so we can say that less polar compounds reach the destination first and then more polar compounds reach.