Explain: (i) Zone refining (ii) Column chromatography.
(i) Zone refining It is used for refining Si,B,Ga,In etc. Impurities are extra soluble withinside the molten country of steel than in strong country. There is a round cellular heater at one stop of a rod of impure metallic. Heater and the molten sector movements from one quit to any other stop. Pure metallic crystallizes out of the soften and the impurities byskip onto the adjoining molten quarter. Repetition of this method numerous instances segregates impurities at one give up of a rod. The stop with impurities can then be reduce off. (ii) Column chromatography. It is used for the separation and purification. It is primarily based totally at the distinction withinside the tendency for adsorption of a metallic and its impurities on a appropriate adsorbent. Different additives of a aggregate are in another way adsorbed on an adsorbent.