An easily-assembled Soxhlet extractor to demonstrate continuous extraction

Kevin M. Jones; Iain A. Smellie; Iain Patterson

doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965

An easily-assembled Soxhlet extractor to demonstrate continuous extraction

Kevin M. Jones, Iain A. Smellie, Iain Patterson

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Abstract

The construction of a Soxhlet extractor from readily available laboratory equipment is described. The apparatus can be used to demonstrate the concept of continuous extraction and was used in the isolation of trimyristin from nutmeg.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	819-820
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Chemical Education
Volume	94
Issue number	6
Early online date	11 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2017

Keywords

High school/introductory chemistry
First-year undergraduate/general
Analytical Chemistry
Hands-on learning/manipulatives

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An easily-assembled Soxhlet extractor to demonstrate continuous extraction

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