Posted by Del on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 6:48pm.
The paper has capillaries in its fibers.
Here are two web sites. The first describes thin layer chromatography; the second describes paper chromatography. The medium for TLC is SiO2; the medium for paper chromatography is, of course, paper.
http://orgchem.colorado.edu/hndbksupport/TLC/TLC.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_chromatography
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