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How Green is My Orange?
Green Extraction of Limonene using
Super Critical CO2
Phase Diagram of CO2
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What is limonene?
(d)-(+)-R-limoneneFound in rind of oranges and lemons
It is a cyclic terpene
How else is this extraction done? (non-Green method)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVZRnVKqkgw
Steam DistillationExtraction
Why is this not Green?
What are some of the outcome of non Green Experiment?
Need to know how to set up simple distillation and extraction. (Techniques)
Isolation yield.Identify the identity of oil.Identify the optical rotation of limonene.