Dye Dilution Method

Dye dilution method. The Stuart-Hamilton method (S-H method) can rightfully be called one of the main methods for separating substances based on the theory of adsorption; it was developed by the American chemist Henry Francis Stuart (b. 1900) and the English scientists Richard Sears Hamilton, born 1897) and John C. Dundas (John Cunningham Dundas, born 1882). The S-H method is used to separate a mixture of esters, alkali