Answer to Question #126165 in General Chemistry for ohaniso

Question

1. What is the purpose of drying the plant material(s) before the extraction of essential oil?
2. Can we dry the plant material(s) under the sunlight? Justify your answer by providing at least five reasons.
3. What is the purpose of grinding the plant material?
4. What is the difference between using ground and unground plant materials in the essential oil extraction process?

Answer 1

1. In my own opinion, dried powdered materials will create more space for the solvent to penetrate the cells and collect the secondary metabolites.

Also, rate of biochemical reactions with the dried materials are very poor..

2. Yes it is true. Because this sunlight not hot.

3. to get a uniform shape.

4. Compare nondegradable pollutant. biodiversity Variety of different species ( species ... made from plant material (biomass) .