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ELI5, how do chemists extract specific substances from something like a flower?
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Mush flower down with solvent.
Leave solvent/flower mixture. (Solvent extracts a selection of substances)
Remove flower debris and keep solvent/substance mixture.
Either: add chemical which may precipitate desired substance. (Neutralisation reaction forming substance salt)
Or heat at different temps, evaporating/separating different sized molecules and separate.