Sarker - Pharmaceutical Emulsions A Drug Developers Toolbag

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sarker, Dipak K., author.

Pharmaceutical emulsions : a drug developer's toolbag / by Dipak K. Sarker.

p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-97683-8 (cloth)

I. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Emulsions chemistry. 2. Biopharmaceutics standards. 3. Chemistry, Pharmaceutical methods. QV 786.5.C7]

RS420

615.19 dc23

2013018795

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Dedicated to my two fabulous sons
Hugh Callum Sarker
and
Noah Marcus Vesco Sarker

stress (Pa)
shear stress (Pa), decay time (s1), delay time (s1)
dot	shear rate (Hz, s1)
surface excess concentration (mol/m2)
Debye length (m)
micron (106 m), ionic strength (mol/dm3, M)
bulk viscosity, coefficient of viscosity (mPa s, cP, cSt)
*	complex bulk viscosity (Pas)
d	surface (dilational) viscosity (mN s/m)
s	surface (shear) viscosity (N/s/m)
	dielectric constant (dimensionless), permittivity (8.854 1010 C2/N/m2)
	strain (L/L, where L is length)
zeta potential (mV)
density, bulk phase (g/cm3)
density difference (medium minus dispersed phase) (g/cm3)
surface tension (mN/m)
phase volume (dimensionless)
surface potential (mV)
contact angle ()
surface pressure (mN/m)
wavelength (nm)
N	frequency, wavenumber (cm)