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  • Soxhlet Extractor

A Soxhlet extractor is a piece of laboratory apparatus designed for the extraction of compounds from a solid material. It allows for unmonitored and unmanaged operation while efficiently recycling a small amount of solvent to dissolve a larger amount of material.


The solvent is heated to reflux. The solvent vapour travels up a distillation arm, and floods into the chamber housing the thimble of solid. The condenser ensures that any solvent vapour cools, and drips back down into the chamber housing the solid material. The chamber containing the solid material slowly fills with warm solvent. Some of the desired compound dissolves in the warm solvent. When the Soxhlet chamber is almost full, the chamber is emptied by the siphon. The solvent is returned to the distillation flask. The thimble ensures that the rapid motion of the solvent does not transport any solid material to the still pot. This cycle may be allowed to repeat many times, over hours or days.


During each cycle, a portion of the non-volatile compound dissolves in the solvent. After many cycles the desired compound is concentrated in the distillation flask. The advantage of this system is that instead of many portions of warm solvent being passed through the sample, just one batch of solvent is recycled.


The apparatus is extremely delicate and we do not advise shipping it with any other items. Sending your own courier or In-store collection is advised.


The apparatus you are purchasing consists the glass components namely:

Condenser

Extractor

500ml Distillation Flask



See this link for a better explenation of operation: https://extractionmagazine.com/2019/06/28/the-soxhlet-extraction/

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Soxhlet Extractor

  • Product Code: Distilling
  • Availability: Out Of Stock
  • R3,795.00

  • Ex Tax: R3,300.00

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