Process or method for collecting, isolating, or removing any substance from a source material, whether bioactive or not. Extracting cannabis compounds into a concentrated substance using solvents such as water, ethanol, or Carbon Dioxide (or CO2), or physical separation such as sieving or friction to remove trichomes.
Extraction may refer to:
English
Etymology
From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɹækʃən/
- Rhymes: -ækʃən
Noun
extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)
- An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
- Coordinate term: abstraction
- Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
- A person's origin or ancestry.
- (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
- (dentistry)