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An easily-assembled Soxhlet extractor to demonstrate continuous extraction

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Date
13/06/2017
Author
Jones, Kevin M.
Smellie, Iain A.
Patterson, Iain L. J.
Funder
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/L016419/1
Keywords
High school/introductory chemistry
First-year undergraduate/general
Analytical Chemistry
Hands-on learning/manipulatives
QD Chemistry
LB2300 Higher Education
DAS
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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.
Citation
Jones , K M , Smellie , I A & Patterson , I L J 2017 , ' An easily-assembled Soxhlet extractor to demonstrate continuous extraction ' , Journal of Chemical Education , vol. 94 , no. 6 , pp. 819-820 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965
Publication
Journal of Chemical Education
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965
ISSN
0021-9584
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2017 The American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965
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The authors thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, University of St Andrews, and the CRITICAT Centre for Doctoral Training for financial support [Grant EP/L016419/1].
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URL
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00965
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14032

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