Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Whatever disintegrates or tends to disintegrate.
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- noun medicine Any material that is added to a
pharmaceutical preparation to make itdisintegrate (and thus release the active ingredient) on contact with water
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Meanwhile Tariff Reform had begun to act as a disintegrant on the
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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Under the registered trade name Kollidon®, PVP is used in tablets as a binding agent and disintegrant.
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It makes tablets a true high-tech product: as a binding agent it enables individual active ingredients of a tablet to form a homogenous entity and as a disintegrant it ensures that tablets break up in liquid and release the active ingredient quickly.
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