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TLC progress

chemrox - 29-7-2015 at 13:49

I belive, from simple observation, that the advancement of solvent up a TLC plate is logarithmic. The issue being if I know how long it took to get halfway up the plate can I predict how much longer completion should take?
Would it be a half-life expression of the type shown here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life

aga - 29-7-2015 at 14:33

y=x<sup>2</sup> innit ?