Pharmaceutical Emulsions and Suspensions
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MARCEL DEKKER, INC.
2000
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loginThis chapter and the following one deal with the formulation and the properties of emulsions, i.e.,dispersions of drops of some liquid in another immiscible one, which exhibit more or less stabilitydepending on the application (1-2). The stability against drop coalescence is provided by thepresence of a small amount of a third component, so-called emulsifier, which is in general a surface-active-agent or surfactant, that adsorbs at the drop interface and produces some interdrop repulsionaccording to a variety of static and dynamic phenomena
