04436 IUPAC Gold Book - partition chromatography 10.1351/goldbook.P04436 P04436 current 1 Chromatography in which separation is based mainly on differences between the solubility of the sample components in the stationary phase ( gas chromatography), or on differences between the solubilities of the components in the mobile and stationary phases (liquid chromatography). Chromatography https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01075 gas chromatography https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02578 liquid chromatography https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/L03578 solubility https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S05740 Orange Book, 2nd ed., p. 94 (https://media.iupac.org/publications/analytical_compendium/) PAC, 1993, 65, 819. 'Nomenclature for chromatography (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)' on page 826 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199365040819) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/P04436/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/P04436/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/P04436/plain Citation: 'partition chromatography' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.P04436 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-28T08:30:51+00:00