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Steam distillation after solvent extraction.

Chemgineer - 28-12-2022 at 09:29

I've been having poor success with steam extractions but find it easy to do a non selective extraction using ethanol and a soxhlet extractor,

Would it be reasonable to add water to the solvent extraction product and then do a steam/ethanol extraction?

Rainwater - 28-12-2022 at 15:54

Need a little more information
what are you trying to extract and what are you trying to extracting it from