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Soxhlet extractors

Soxhlet extractors is the plural of Soxhlet extractor.

Meaning of Soxhlet extractor

Noun

Soxhlet extractor (plural Soxhlet extractors)

  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 books2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264

Questions about Soxhlet extractors

What is Soxhlet extractors the plural of?
Soxhlet extractors is the plural of Soxhlet extractor.

Words near Soxhlet extractors in the dictionary

  1. Soxhlet apparatus
  2. Soxhlet apparatuses
  3. Soxhlet extraction
  4. Soxhlet extractions
  5. Soxhlet extractor
  6. Soxhlet extractors
  7. Soxhlets
  8. soy
  9. soy banter
  10. soy bean
  11. soy beans

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