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Plants: Growing and using them

Did you know that there are more than 350 thousand different types of plants on earth?

X-Lab this week takes us to the Argotti botanic garden where research on different plant uses is carried out. We’ll also visit a company which extracts substances from seaweed and then go to Germany to find out how new inventions get verified at the European Patent Office. In the studio Corazon shows us how to separate out the colours which make up a some natural plant colours.

This week’s experiment:

Chromatographic separation of colours.

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