Hello everyone, happy friday and yet another day in the holly month of Ramadhan. Been quite for a while but that is due to the tight schedule we have been having towards our researches we have been conducting towards our great conclusion
       As last time we were more concentrated on studying the theory and literature of the plants ingredients and that has helped much on our experimental ways.
      After quite sometime now processing we have decided to come with a way to extract the oils from each plant then test them on insects like mosquitoes, bugs and other insects
      From our knowledge of chemistry we have used distillation method to extract essential oils from cloves, green leaves and lantana camara and solvent extraction method to extract the oil from garlic since its oil is not essential.
      The use of distillation concerns the consideration of boiling points between water and the plant. For essential oils the amount of volitility is high, hence the boiling point is below water's boiling point. After the evaporation of the ingredient towards the process the vapour is condensed and then settled. The oil has higher denser than water, hence it stays down ready to be separated.
      Lantana Camara did not produce any oil from distillation, so we now have clove oil and thinking about the means to combine the solitions and the oil or either to make the best insecticide possible.
      It has been a pleasure to work with the Chief Government Chemist of Zanzibar and we are learning alot of things to help us not only with our project, but with our studies and enviroment in general.. We are looking forward to a better day everyday.
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