Can i extract beta carotene from carrots using acetone? if yes, how? if not, what else can i do?

Carotenoids are widely known as provitamin A, while there is an increasing interest in their role as antioxidants. For this purpose carrot roots are cut to slices (width 2 mm, length 1 cm). The extraction yield of carotenes is observed at different temperatures (20°C, 40°C, and 60°C) using ethanol and 2-propanol. Initially, 25 g of cut carrot samples are  added to 100 g of 96% ethanol. Carrot slices are extracted in water bath (20°C, 40°C, 60°C), shake after every 10 min, and after every hour of extraction 5 ml sample are s taken and mixed with petroleum ether (20 ml). Water is

added for the separation of phases, and after the separation the petroleum-ether-carotenoid phase is  made up to the volume of 50 ml.

number of molecules / avogadro's number * molecule molecular = mass

explanation:

we define a gram-molecular weight as the mass of one mole of any element or compound. a mole contains avogadro's number of units (molecules) –  

6.022

x

10

23

. so, dividing the number of molecules by avogadro's number gives us the number of moles. multiplying that by the molecular weight gives us the mass. from the periodic table we find the gram-molecular weight of u to be238 and of f to be19. so,  

u

f

6

will have a gram-molecular weight of 352g.