Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Active ingredient
Active ingredient
The material or chemical in a batch or formula responsible for producing the desired result and giving the product its main characteristic. Other substances enhance or buffer the active ingredient, and may be classified as inert.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Software
- Category: Supply chain
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Optometry Category: Optical phenomena
Synesthesia
Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- Physical geography(2496)
- Geography(671)
- Cities & towns(554)
- Countries & Territories(515)
- Capitals(283)
- Human geography(103)
Geography(4630) Terms
- Human evolution(1831)
- Evolution(562)
- General archaeology(328)
- Archaeology tools(11)
- Artifacts(8)
- Dig sites(4)
Archaeology(2749) Terms
- Festivals(20)
- Religious holidays(17)
- National holidays(9)
- Observances(6)
- Unofficial holidays(6)
- International holidays(5)
Holiday(68) Terms
- Cosmetics(80)