Soxhlet Extractor
Addition Funnels
Balances
Chromatography Columns
Condensers
Dean-Stark Apparatus
Desiccators
Distillation Receivers
Filtration
Flasks
Fractionating Columns
Lab Jacks
Manometers
Melting Point Apparatus
Pipettes
Rotary Evaporator
Separating Funnels
Soxhlet Extractor
Still Heads
Stoppers and Adapters
Volumetric Analysis
A Soxhlet extractor is a piece of apparatus designed to extract substances with a low solubility in the extracting solvent. It does this by allowing condensed solvent to wash through a paper thimble (1) placed in the extractor (2) which is designed to return the washings to the boiling flask by siphon action.