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Lab quiz Essential Oils (A) esters, essential oils may be a complex mixture of c

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Question

Lab quiz Essential Oils (A) esters, essential oils may be a complex mixture of components that usually belong to one of 1. Besides two groups of natural products. What are these two groups? (2 pts) and 2. The spice you will be using in this experiment is will be isolating is mainly the compound 3. What technique will you be using to analyze the essential oil once it is extracted? and the essential oil you aldehyde 4. The extraction solvent used in this experiment is . The drying agent is 5. What property doesan cscenta l pos which ellows us to extract it ning stam diti essential oil is an rnisabe .quct and seam cl.skaahon 6. What will happen if you grind the spice too finely or heat the distillation apparatus too rapidly 7. What is the advantage of using steam distillation instead of a traditional distillation to extract an essential oil?

Explanation / Answer

3. Gas chromatography technique is used to analyze essential oil once it is extracted.

6.if we grind spice too fine or heat distillation apparatus too rapidly then the product quality may degrade due to product decomposition or impurity grinding therebt denaturing product