Why the wink your highness?
Forgot-also ordered a borosilicate glass powder dropping funnel (a powder funnel is a small [usually, although one supposes they can come in whatever somebody wants them to come in, size-wise within reason] wide-flared funnel with a short stem that has a wide bore. They are, as they sound like, for addition of powders to glassware, the wide bore size of the stem makes for easy addition of whatever solids are to be added to the vessel they are mated to at the time so it falls in easily without jamming up
Already I have one soxhlet but didn't have a condenser for it. A soxhlet extractor is for continuous cyclic extraction of something contained in a soxhlet thimble, a porous cup which goes down into the central bore, which consists of a wide column with several pipes, an inlet for the solvent, which is placed in a collection/recirculation flask, just a standard flask with a ground glass joint with which to mate the flask to the soxhlet, a normal round bottom flask, and which connects to the upper, outlet pipe of the soxhlet extractor but which has a seal between the bottom of the part that holds the thimble and the joint to connect it to the solvent reservoir flask, which serves both that role and the receiver flask for the things to be extracted. Solvent is heated in the flask, and it rises up the bottom tube, and percolates through the material (particularly they are of great utility in extracting things from natural sources such as plants, fungi etc. Or they can also be used for slow, steady, continuous addition of a reagent into the solvent in the bottom flask in which it is soluble, the reagent being placed within the thimble and leached out of it gradually by the condensing vapors.
When the level of solvent rises sufficiently for a single cycle of extraction, it then gets to the level of the upper tube, which connects back under the seal, and allows it to siphon back down into the collection flask. Lather, rinse, repeat, a powerful and efficient condenser, mounted vertically in the top (female) joint of the soxhlet serves to continually recondense the vapors of solvent and trickle them back down the bore into the extractor again, and again, and again; which allows a much MUCH smaller quantity of solvent to perform much more efficiently, rather than soaking for instance, ground up plant material, fungi or whatever else is to be extracted/leached into a reaction by continually cycling the same portion through the stuff being extracted from instead of a regular extraction using portions of solvent, stewing the substrate being extracted in separate multiple portions of solvent and either evaporating it off, distilling and reclaiming it (preferable, both environmentally and of course, who on earth would want to pay for liters of solvents when 100s of ml can be used and continually recirculated until saturated, dumped into the collection flask, then freed of the solute being collected as that same solvent is sent back up the pipes again for its next cycles, until you've eluted all your desired compounds from the material its contained within and the material in the thimble is exhausted and leached dry of whatever thing it happens to be that the person doing the extraction desires to collect or remove or react etc.
A very efficient piece of equipment, designed from the outset with economy and effectiveness in mind, operating on a simple but quite ingenious principle.
This is the soxhlet I already have, although I don't have a condenser of sufficient size for the top joint, which is in the large 40-38 size and taper, but there is a matching allihn condenser coming with the new soxhlet (I bought it largely for the condenser actually, since I already have a soxhlet extractor, but since they came as a pair for a price that would have been fair for the condenser alone, I figured I might as well take advantage and get a second soxhlet thrown in along with it
And my current allihn-type reflux condenser (300mm length, 24/40 joint size/taper, although this fits most of my glassware it'll not fit the soxhlet, most of my lab glass is in 24/40 or 24/32 aside from my microscale kit (such as 5ml, 10ml flasks and integrated flask/micro-sized vigreaux column with a sidearm on the flask, for a thermometer, although I need to find a suitable adapter for the sidearm and get an additional microscale cylindrical liebig-style integrated condenser portion of it repaired after the pigs damaged it. Which I am furious about, because I got that piece of kit at a knockdown price (a fiver) and new it would be an expensive piece, or a custom made and out of my price range to easily replace. So I'm going to have to make them pay for the damages (not that I have the slightest issue with doing THAT, as well as things like microscale test tubes and pipettes.) won't fit, but is identical in type, only with a much larger male joint to fit to the soxhlets, as a dedicated piece more or less, heres a pic of that too:
