Soxhlet extractor (English, noun)
expansion: Soxhlet extractor (plural Soxhlet extractors)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: Soxhlet extractors
tags: plural