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Applications of quantitative microscopy

• *Determination of the % of a vegetable powder drug in a mixture
of vegetable powdered drugs (herbal tea)
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• physical & chemical means of assaying are inapplicable.
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• *Estimation of the % of foreign organic matter in many vegetable

powdered drugs . ( considered as adulterants ).
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• *Estimation of the % of infestation with insects in vegetable

powdered drugs.
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