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Clinical Pharmacy-Pharm D Level Three 2 Semester 2024/2025 Pharmaceutical Technology (PT 607)
The thick tablets are:
1- Easily broken, for examples, the capping and laminating tablets can be formed.
2- Low quality tablets that cannot be sold.
3- Difficult to be swollen by the patients.
4- Have low solubility and cannot be easily degraded. Hence, cannot release the active
ingredient at the correct time.
Rules:
Deviation = thickness of each tablet - Average thickness
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% Deviation = [ ] X 100
Example:
Tablet Thickness Tablet Thickness % Tablet Thickness
Tablet no.
(mm) Deviation Deviation
1 5.53
2 5.47
3 5.48
4 5.55
5 5.55
6 5.59
7 5.55
8 5.52
9 5.53
10 5.50
Average
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