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THE belief that the word ‘chromatography’ was coined by Tswett1 about 1906 is incorrect; it appears to have been widely used, though with a different connotation, for more than a century and a half previously. As so often happens, Tswett appears merely to have adopted an existing word and given it an additional meaning. Paradoxically, many modern works of reference define chromatography in every way but the one which would first spring to the mind of a chemist.
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WILLIAMS, T., WEIL, H. Definition of Chromatography. Nature 170, 503 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170503b0
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