Soxhlet extractor
English edit
Etymology edit
Invented in 1879 by Franz von Soxhlet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Soxhlet extractor (plural Soxhlet extractors)
- (chemistry) A piece of laboratory apparatus consisting of a glass reservoir that sits over a lower flask (containing a boiling solvent) and under a condenser; a sample contained in a paper thimble is placed in the reservoir and soluble materials are continually extracted by the warm solvent and transferred to the lower flask via a siphon.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264:
- Amid a gleaming clutter of burners and spectroscopes, funnels and flasks, centrifugal and Soxhlet extractors […] , serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into log books
Further reading edit
- Soxhlet extractor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia