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April 2007

Ames Lab employees taught students about the principle of capillary action through a chromatography experiment. Students marked black ink onto filter paper, exposed the filter paper to water and watched as the water and ink traveled through the paper, revealing the different colors that make up the color black. Different types of black ink created different “rainbow” patterns of color according to their chemical makeup.

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