
Available as a standard capacity and large capacity piece.ģ. Soxhlet Extractor – The extractor itself will extract the impurities from your solid via a repeated soaking/siphoning with the solvent. Available in a huge selection of sizes – 5ml to 250ml and 500ml to 10L.Ģ. Round bottom flask – This is filled with your solvent of interest. To complete Soxhlet extraction apparatus you will need the followingġ. Also, to make things even simpler if required, Quickfit produce a number of complete Soxhlet assemblies including matching flask, condenser and extractor in volumes ranging from 20ml up to 2000ml. If joint sizes do not match, then there are a wealth of adapters available. Quickfit glassware can provide an easy solution to creating this set up as each piece of glassware has a specified joint size, which slots simply into other pieces with corresponding joint sizes. As a result, the desired low solubility compound is extracted out and siphoned into the flask. The refluxing solvent from the flask is heated and washes over the solid placed within the Soxhlet extractor. A Soxhlet extractor is placed between a condenser and a flask. The Soxhlet extraction method uses a number of different glassware pieces.

It was invented by Franz von Soxhlet in 1879 for the extraction of a lipid from a solid sample and has since become widely used the world over. Soxhlet extraction is used for extracting a compound of low solubility from a solid sample (typically natural or environmental samples such as soil, sediment and more).
