Step 1, Use chromatography paper and draw baseline in pencil as pencil will not dissolve in solvent, Step 2, add food colouring to baseline using a dropper, Step 3, place the paper in a beaker of solvent ensuring the solvent is not above the pencil line, Step 4, to ensure the food colouring/dye will not dissolve in the solvent, Step 5, Allow the solvent to travel up the paper and food colouring/dye to separate, Step 6, Take the paper out before the solvent reaches the top and mark the solvent front

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