After conducting my experiment, I have found out that green inks in Crayola Markers, Sharpie Markers,    M 'n' M's, Excel Gum, Highlighters, and Wet Erase Makers, are mixtures of different colors. On the filter paper, the water in the ink carries the pigments onto the paper. The water carries the pigments along with it while traveling up the filter paper. Different-colored pigments are carried along at different rates, some of them traveling faster and farther than others. The pigments speed is determined upon the size of the pigment molecule and how strongly the pigment is attached to the paper. Since the water carries the different pigments at different rates, the inks starts to separate to uncover the colors that were mixed together to make it. That is how you could see the different colors that made up the original inks. I know that the color green is made up of blues and yellow's, but since the highlighter was a fluorescent color, it was made up of different colors than markers are.

Future Work:

    If I were to continue on with this experiment, I would make sure that the time that the filter paper was left in the water was consistent throughout. I would like to try and find a way to separate the colors in a permanent marker, as well.

Acknowledgements:

Thank-you to my teachers Mrs. Thompson-Black and to Mr. Bealiou for helping me with my project, giving me ideas, and helping me put forth my best effort to get a great end result.