Formulation vs Ingredient - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between formulation and ingredient

is that formulation is the act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula while ingredient is ingredient.

(en noun)

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

(medicine) A medicinal preparation

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(en noun)

One of the substances present in a mixture.

* Sir Isaac Newton

By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients .

* Arbuthnot

Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

* mixture

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