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• Pharmaceutical, food, chemical and petrochemical
industries.

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• It is used in the BP for expensive drugs and chemicals
containing small quantities of moisture. Example:
• dry extracts of alkaloids containing drugs.
• alginic acid and alginates.
• fixed oils (arachis, castor, olive and sesame oils)

• For crude drugs such as digitalis and ipeca.