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extractant

American  
[ik-strak-tuhnt] / ɪkˈstræk tənt /

noun

Chemistry.

  1. a liquid used to remove a solute from a solution.

Etymology

Origin of extractant

extract + -ant

Example Sentences

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It is not readily soluble in absolute alcohol and 95 per cent is not as good an extractant as water.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus McCollum has shown that while benzene is of little value as an extractant of this vitamine, if we will first extract the vitamine with alcohol or water and deposit this on dextrin by evaporation it is then possible by shaking the activated dextrin with benzene to cause the vitamine to pass into solution in benzene.

From Project Gutenberg

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