extractant

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English extract

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -āns

Old French -antbor.

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Proto-Germanic *-ndz

Proto-West Germanic *-andī

Old English -ende

Middle English -ant

English -ant

English extractant

From extract + -ant.

Noun

extractant (plural extractants)

1. (chemistry) A liquid used to extract a substance from another material.

Translations

Translations

• German: Extraktionsmittel n, Auszugsmittel n

See also

• separating funnel

Further reading

• extraction (chemistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia