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  • noun chemistry A second solvent added in small quantities to enhance the solvent power of the primary solvent

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  • Check whether the supplied concentrated solution can be diluted with non-distilled, ordinary water (in this case, the solution must contain a cosolvent).

    Chapter 4 1993

  • - The combination of chlorhexidine + cetrimide is more useful: better detergent properties (cleaning) and it can always to be diluted with non-distilled water (cetrimide operates as a cosolvent).

    Chapter 4 1993

  • Mazindol is thought to relize the of thrust swiftly than to cosolvent its segmentation {48}.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • Wong TS, Roccatano D, Wilmanns M, Schwaneberg U (2007) Understanding a mechanism of organic cosolvent inactivation in Heme monooxygenase P450-PM3.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the new drug application (NDA) for NEXTERONE (R) (amiodarone HCl) Injection, a novel, patent-protected, cosolvent free formulation of the antiarrhythmic agent Amiodarone IV, originally marketed in the US by Wyeth as Cordarone (R) Intravenous.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

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