Contributor: Kaitlyn Zimmerman. Lesson ID: 12693
Do you paint with water colors? Mixing water color paints together can make new colors. Once they're mixed, can you get them apart? Learn about primary colors and special paper that separates colors!
You may already know that combining the colors red and blue make a purple color, and that green and red make brown. Did you know that this color change is all due to capillary action?
If so, go ahead and pull them out! Some crayon packs contain colors that have crazy names that you have never heard of, such as “Mango Tango” and “Jazzberry Jam.” There are other colors that you may be more more familiar with, such as purple, orange, and green.
Even the color purple is made of multiple colors!
Capillary action can do some amazing things, such as pulling colors apart! Even though you may think of purple, orange, and green as independent colors, they are actually made up of a mixture of other colors (mainly the primary colors)! As the water was rising up the chromatography paper and pulling the colors apart, capillary action was occurring!
Continue on to the Got It? section for a quick brain check!