4ใ Procedure
Use data sheet provided in Appendix A to collect all your data
1. Weigh approximately 9 grams of potato chips containing oil
2. Crush and dry them in an oven for 30 minutes at 120 0c and determine the moisture content
3. Add the sample into the filter paper
4. Place several boiling chips into a clean, dry round bottom flask. Weigh the container with boiling chips and record as the tare weight of the container.
5. Pour 325 ml hexane into the round bottom flask as a solvent
6. Insert filter paper and sample into the extractor, assemble the Soxhlet apparatus and start teaching and continue the process up to the end of the third siphon
7. When the extraction time is complete, remove the filter paper and sample. Transfer it into an evaporating dish. Weigh the sample. Dry it in an oven. Weigh the sample the next day again.