Essential Oil Steam Extraction

Essential oil steam extractions are done via steam distillations

Lemon-Mint

The essential oil from the leaf of the lemon-mint was extracted via steam distillation and analyzed via GC-MS. The spectra still requires interpretation.

Figure 1: The chromatogram of the extracted lemon-mint oil. 11/21/16

Figure 2: The chromatogram of the extracted lemon-mint oil zoomed in to the three peaks of interest at approximately 5.9, 7.7, and 8.0 minutes. 11/21/16