Given below are two statements:

Statement (I): In partition chromatography, stationary phase is thin film of liquid present in the inert support.
Statement (II): In paper chromatography, the material

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Given below are two statements:

Statement (I): In partition chromatography, stationary phase is thin film of liquid present in the inert support.
Statement (II): In paper chromatography, the material of paper acts as a stationary phase.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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🧠 In Paper Chromatography, the Water on the Paper Is the Stationary Phase — Not the Paper Itself

Read this question carefully. The trap is in Statement II's wording: "the material of paper acts as a stationary phase". That sounds reasonable — paper is a solid sheet, the spot stays on it. But it is not what is actually happening at the molecular level.

In paper chromatography, the cellulose fibers in the paper hold a thin layer of water trapped between them. That water is the actual stationary

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