This object is a Soxhlet’s extraction tube made from Pyrex glass. The Soxhlet extraction uses a solvent to extract organic compounds from a solid matrix. The extraction is named for its inventor, ...
THE living organism or tissue is weighed, preferably by the displacement method 1, and placed in a weighed Soxhlet thimble. It is then distilled under xylol and the percentage of water estimated 2.