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Disintegrant vs Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone - What's the difference?

disintegrant | polyvinylpolypyrrolidone |

As nouns the difference between disintegrant and polyvinylpolypyrrolidone

is that disintegrant is (medicine) any material that is added to a pharmaceutical preparation to make it disintegrate (and thus release the active ingredient) on contact with water while polyvinylpolypyrrolidone is (chemistry) a highly cross-linked modification of polyvinylpyrrolidone, used as a disintegrant in pharmaceutical tablets.

disintegrant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) Any material that is added to a pharmaceutical preparation to make it disintegrate (and thus release the active ingredient) on contact with water

    • polyvinylpolypyrrolidone

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia polyvinylpolypyrrolidone) (-)
  • (chemistry) A highly cross-linked modification of polyvinylpyrrolidone, used as a disintegrant in pharmaceutical tablets.

    • Synonyms

    * PVPP