Extraction Process Flashcards
is the first step to separate the desired natural products from the raw materials.
Extraction
the process in which solid particles in a liquid or gaseous fluid are removed using a filter medium that permits the fluid to pass through but retains the solid particles.
Filtration
Solvent used for extraction
Menstruum
Materials remaining after extraction
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Concentrated preparations of vegetable or animal-evaporation of all or nearly all solvent
Extractives
are alcoholic or hydro-alcoholic solutions prepared from vegetable material or from chemical substances.
Tinctures
the chemical removal (dissolving) of muscles and other soft tissues in a specimen while leaving the sclerotized or chitinized parts that are needed for identification
Maceration
is the process of a liquid slowly passing through a filter
Percolation
are dilute solutions containing the readily soluble constituents of crude drugs
Infusion
is a laboratory apparatus for the extraction of lipids and other molecules from a solid sample.
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