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Electrophoresis is the phenomenon of the movement of electrically charged particles through a liquid or gas as a result of an electric field formed between electrodes immersed in the medium. A mister Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius whom was born August 10, 1902, in Stockholm developed electrophoresis. Mr.Tiselius also developed chromatography, phase partition and gel filtration. Webster’s
Dictionary defines Electrophoresis as “the movement of suspended particles
through a fluid or gel under the action of an electromotive force applied
to electrodes in contact with the suspension.” And it also defines gel
electrophoresis (which is a type of Electrophoresis) as “electrophoresis
in which molecules (as proteins and nucleic acids) migrate through a gel
and especially a polyacrylamide gel and separate into bands according to
size.”
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an example of electrophoresis, in an emulsion of rubber latex in an aqueous
medium, the rubber droplets tend to acquire an electrical charge by absorption
of ions. If a voltage is applied between a pair of electrodes in the emulsion,
the rubber particles migrate toward the electrode that has a charge opposite
to their own. If this electrode has a particular shape, the rubber particles
deposits on it will coalesce to form an article of this shape; this is
the process by which surgical rubber gloves and other electroformed articles
are manufactured. Also many automotive parts are coated with paint by an
electrophoretic deposition process.
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