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Soxhlet extractor (with condenser above and flask below)
(chemistry) A piece of laboratoryapparatus 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.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264:
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
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