Totally Tablets
I prevent tablet ingredients from sticking to punches and dyes during production. What am I?
What is a tablet anti-adherent?
Give me sweet! Nobody wants to drink it when its sour.
What is a sweetening agent?
I drive semisolids to get their medicated ointments.
What is an Ointment Base?
This is a component of film coating that makes the film more pliable when spread over tablets, beads, and granules.
What is a Plasticizer?
That substance that has to form stable water-soluble complexes with metals.
What is a Chelating Agent?
I cause adhesion of powder particles in tablet granulations. What am I?
What is a tablet binder?
Any fashionista knows how important it is to match their outfit to their makeup. Liquids are no different when it comes to their color and taste.
What is a colorant and flavorant?
This excipient reduces the surface tension of water, allowing it to spread more easily.
What is a Wetting Agent?
This substance adsorbs to surfaces or interfaces to reduce surface or interfacial tension. Can also be used as a wetting agent, detergent, or emulsifying agent.
What is a surfactant?
Close to its' cousin, chelates, this agent is used in some liquid pharmaceuticals as stabilizers to complex heavy metals that might promote instability.
What is a Sequestering Agent?
This excipient promotes disruption of the mass in a solid form into small particles that are more easily dispersed or dissolved.
What is a Tablet Disintegrant?
I'm a base used in a variety of liquids for oral and parenteral administration. I can be aqueous, hydroalcoholic, or oleaginous. You could say I really drive the drug along.
What is a vehicle?
I prevent preparations from drying, particularly ointments and creams.
What is a Humectant?
I prevent the deterioration of preparations by that pesky molecule. You know the one - oxygen!
What is an Antioxidant?
I make a solution similar in osmotic dextrose characteristics to physiologic fluids such as irrigation, ophthalmic, and parenteral fluids.
What is a Tonicity Agent?
This liquid reduces friction when squeezing into small spaces - especially when you're a tablet being tightly compressed.
What is a tablet lubricant?
I'm the agent that deals with immiscible vehicles. Rough ones those. I have to promote and maintain dispersion of those finely subdivided particles. We're so short staffed that sometimes I have to work with semi-solids too.
What is a Emulsifying Agent?
What is a Levigating Agent.
When the stomach gets acidic (which is always), you'd put this coating around a tablet to protect it.
What is Enteric Coating?
This substance is a Doctor Without a Border, it increases the solubility of poorly water-soluble substances or enhances the chemical stability of a drug.
What is a Water-Miscible co-solvent?
Go with the flow, like this substance that improves the flow of properties of the powder mixture in tablets and capsules.
What is a tablet glidant?
They use me to reduce the sedimentation rate of particles in a vehicle in which they are not soluble. Oh, did I mention I increase viscosity?
What is a Suspending Agent?
I'm not such a brute as I'll gladly increase the viscosity of your substance. If you're nice I might even act as a stabilizer, free of charge!
What is a Gelling Agent?
I'm the overall name for all the coatings - and no I'm not enteric, film, or sugar.
What is Encapsulating Agent?
The kind mother of substance, this will soften the skin or soothe irritated skin or mucous membranes.
What is an Emollient?