Acetone soluble neutral (nonpolar) lipids account for ab total lipids of Hb, cutirubrum. The neutral lipid solution has red color due to addition, a wide nonpolar compounds are present. These lipids can be separ chromatography using 3% water-deactivated alumina and el zene containing increasing proportions of ethyl ether, aceton The neutral lipids. purified by preparative layer chromatograp earlier (Section 2.2), consist virtually exclusively of is c4v6b8ฝ