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Soxhlet extractor en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɒkslət ɪkˌstɹæktə/

Etymology

Invented in 1879 by Franz von Soxhlet.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • 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 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264:

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