What's the difference between humectant and product?

Humectant


Definition:

  • (a.) Diluent.
  • (n.) A diluent drink or medicine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Appropriate sweeteners, flavoring agents, preservatives, humectants, and pH adjusters were then added.
  • (2) This study shows that such common dentifrice components as the humectants, which contribute to the texture, rheologic characteristics, and shelf life of the product, also may affect the type of dental plaque grown on the tooth surfaces between toothbrushings or during long-term neglect of toothbrushing or of oral hygiene.
  • (3) These humectants thus act as inhibitors at high aw.
  • (4) For 30 p. 100 water and with humectants, Aw was 0,84-0,88.
  • (5) A reduced Aw (0,86, for 38 p. 100 water) by adding humectants, but with a soft texture similar to that of a processed swiss cheese; 2.
  • (6) A decrease in the released amount of drugs occurred also after an addition of a humectant additive to the ointment base.
  • (7) Commonly used humectants include sorbitol, a sugar alcohol of the hexitol type, which is used often in sugarless candies.
  • (8) The symptoms of xerosis (dry skin) can be ameliorated by increasing the hydration state of the stratum corneum through a humectant or occlusive effect, smoothing the rough surface with an emollient, replenishing natural moisturizing factors, and normalizing the stratum corneum.
  • (9) The latter contained either glycerine, glycerine and pyrollidone carboxylic acid, or urea as humectant agents.
  • (10) Use of liquid humectants in high moisture foods increase phase volume and viscosity, thereby lowering the aw of the rate maximum.
  • (11) In some intermediate moisture meat products prepared by cook-soak equilibration in a variety of humectant solutions, 0.3% sorbate induced the formation of covalent linkages between proteins on storage at 38 degrees C. The concentration of sorbate in the meats decreased by a factor of 2 during 4 months at this temperature.
  • (12) The influence of adjuvants on physicochemical properties, droplet size spectra and deposit patterns of five aqueous spray mixtures was studied under laboratory conditions, using two surfactants, Atlox 3409F and Triton X-114; two humectants, propylene glycol and glycerol; and one polymeric adjuvant, Agrisol FL-100F.
  • (13) No differences in MFP release were observed for two different silica-based formulations which differed with respect to thickener, humectants and other ingredients.
  • (14) Aw was lowered to 0,84 by adding humectants (sucrose, glycerol, sorbitol, citric acid, sodium citrate and chloride).
  • (15) by using glycerol as a humectant, were also found to be successful in controlling photodamage.
  • (16) In 76 adults, randomly distributed between two groups, a comparison was made of the effect on the level of mutans streptococci in saliva between two dentifrices containing: (1) xylitol (9.9%) and glycerol (20%) or (2) sorbitol (28%) as humectants.
  • (17) The use of humectants and drying to make foods safe and stable has been one of the underlying principles of food preservation for centuries.
  • (18) Flavours, humectants, binders will not irritate the mucosa.
  • (19) Between the two humectants, glycerol proved to be more advantageous than propylene glycol.
  • (20) Media containing three different humectants; NaCl, sucrose or glycerol were used to determine minimal aW levels for growth in the above media which were 0.92, 0.92 and 0.90 respectively.

Product


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.
  • (n.) The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
  • (v. t.) To produce; to bring forward.
  • (v. t.) To lengthen out; to extend.
  • (v. t.) To produce; to make.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
  • (2) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (3) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
  • (4) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
  • (5) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
  • (6) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
  • (7) Marked enhancement of IFN-gamma production by T cells was seen in the presence of as little as 0.3% thymic DC.
  • (8) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
  • (9) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
  • (10) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
  • (11) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
  • (12) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
  • (13) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
  • (14) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (15) A possible role for mitochondria in myocardial adenosine production is discussed.
  • (16) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
  • (17) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (18) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (19) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (20) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.

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