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Band

one or more colored areas (circular to elongated shape) on a TLC plate produced by the separation of the dye components for a particular combination of solvent and stationary phase. Bands are created as the solvent (mobile phase) moves past and reacts with the solute, migrating from the origin.

Committee

Trace Materials

Date Added to Lexicon

06/12/2023

Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)

ANSI/ASTM E2227-23e1 Standard Guide for Forensic Examination of Dyes in Textile Fibers by Thin-Layer Chromatography. ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, 2023. Source link

Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. A copy of the complete standard may be purchased from ASTM International, https://www.astm.org