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  2. Tablet (pharmacy) - Wikipedia

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    Medicinal tablets were originally made in the shape of a disk of whatever colour their components determined, but are now made in many shapes and colours to help distinguish different medicines. Tablets are often imprinted with symbols, letters, and numbers, which allow them to be identified, or a groove to allow splitting by hand.

  3. Pharmaceutical formulation - Wikipedia

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    Special coatings can make the tablet resistant to the stomach acids such that it only disintegrates in the duodenum, jejunum and colon as a result of enzyme action or alkaline pH. Pills can be coated with sugar, varnish, or wax to disguise the taste. Pharmaceutical ingredients such as APIs can also be coated with a ResonantAcoustic mixer for ...

  4. List of Samsung tablets - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of tablets produced by Samsung. Samsung announced its first tablet, the Android -powered Galaxy Tab 7.0 , in September 2010. [ 1 ] Since then, it has produced a number of tablets, including the Galaxy Tab series , the Galaxy Book series, and the Galaxy View series.

  5. Capsule (pharmacy) - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] For this reason, producers of drugs such as OTC analgesics wanting to emphasize the strength of their product developed the "caplet", a portmanteau of "capsule-shaped tablet", [1] to tie this positive association to more efficiently produced tablet pills, as well as being an easier-to-swallow shape than the usual disk-shaped ...

  6. Tableting - Wikipedia

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    The tablet press is a high-speed mechanical device. It squeezes the ingredients into the required tablet shape with extreme precision. It can make the tablet in many shapes, although they are usually round or oval. Also, it can press the name of the manufacturer or the product into the top of the tablet.

  7. Active ingredient - Wikipedia

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    The dosage form for a pharmaceutical contains the active pharmaceutical ingredient, which is the drug substance itself, and excipients, which are the ingredients of the tablet, or the liquid in which the active agent is suspended, or other material that is pharmaceutically inert. Drugs are chosen primarily for their active ingredients.

  8. Amazon Fire - Wikipedia

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    Kindle Fire showing components, back cover removed. The Amazon Fire, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a line of tablet computers developed by Amazon.Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was first released in November 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and running on Fire OS, an Android-based operating system.

  9. Tablet computer - Wikipedia

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    A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being computers, have similar capabilities, but lack some input/output (I/O) abilities that