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The term extraction process encompasses any operation that makes use of a solvent to extract some desirable material (the solute) from a second solid, liquid, or gaseous phase. For convenience, extraction is subdivided accordingly: thus, if the second phase is a solid, the process is called leaching; if it is a liquid, the process is liquid-liquid extraction, or simply, extraction; if it is a gas, the process is frequently referred to as gas scrubbing.
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L. Alders. Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Elsevier, Amsterdam (1959).
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Heald, C., Smith, A.C.K. (1974). Extraction Processes. In: Applied Physical Chemistry. A Macmillan Chemistry Text. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01644-0_6
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