a question on soxhlet extraction

[biochemist]

Could anyone help me make sense of the foundations and procedures of the soxhlet extraction. I've got absolutely no idea about this and going to do this experiment tomorrow...

Thanks very much!

[thunderfvck]

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~vanhoose3/Procedure1.html

that should help

click "click here for more details" in the first paragraph for more details.