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  2. Decoction - Wikipedia

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    It is the most common preparation method in various herbal medicine systems. Decoction involves first drying the plant material; then mashing, slicing, or cutting the material to allow for maximum dissolution; and finally boiling in water to extract oils, volatile organic compounds and other various chemical substances. [1]

  3. Soxhlet extractor - Wikipedia

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    A Soxhlet extractor has three main sections: a percolator (boiler and reflux) which circulates the solvent, a thimble (usually made of thick filter paper) which retains the solid to be extracted, and a siphon mechanism, which periodically empties the condensed solvent from the thimble back into the percolator.

  4. Infusion - Wikipedia

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    Infusion is the process of extracting chemical compounds or flavors from plant material in a solvent such as water, oil or alcohol, by allowing the material to remain suspended in the solvent over time (a process often called steeping). An infusion is also the name for the resultant liquid.

  5. Phytoextraction process - Wikipedia

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    For a plant to extract a heavy metal from water or soil, five things need to happen. The metal must dissolve in something the plant roots can absorb. The plant roots must absorb the heavy metal. The plant must chelate the metal to both protect itself and make the metal more mobile (this can also happen before the metal is absorbed).

  6. Leaching (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Specific extraction methods depend on the soluble characteristics relative to the sorbent material such as concentration, distribution, nature, and size. [1] Leaching can occur naturally seen from plant substances (inorganic and organic), [ 2 ] [ 3 ] solute leaching in soil, [ 4 ] and in the decomposition of organic materials. [ 5 ]

  7. Fragrance extraction - Wikipedia

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    Fragrance extraction refers to the separation process of aromatic compounds from raw materials, using methods such as distillation, solvent extraction, expression, sieving, or enfleurage. [1] The results of the extracts are either essential oils , absolutes , concretes , or butters , depending on the amount of waxes in the extracted product.

  8. Extraction (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Laboratory-scale liquid-liquid extraction. Photograph of a separatory funnel in a laboratory scale extraction of 2 immiscible liquids: liquids are a diethyl ether upper phase, and a lower aqueous phase. Soxhlet extractor. Extraction in chemistry is a separation process consisting of the separation of a substance from a matrix. The distribution ...

  9. Olive oil extraction - Wikipedia

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    Modern method of olive oil extraction Reconstructed lever-and-weights press from a 4th-to-8th-century village in the Golan Heights Grinder with two millstones and in the foreground several fiber disks Olive paste after stone crushing is being applied to fiber mats in Sicily Modern press with stack of fiber disks Reconstruction of an ancient Greek olive oil extractor