A chemist needs a pure solid sample of a water-soluble blue dye

CHEMISTRY · Subjective · A Level · Chemistry · Chromatography · Chromatography

Problem

A chemist needs a pure solid sample of a water-soluble blue dye. Explain, in one to two sentences, why distilling the dye solution close to dryness before carrying out paper chromatography is advantageous compared with directly chromatographing the original solution.

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