What's the difference between humectant and retention?

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.

Retention


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.
  • (n.) The power of retaining; retentiveness.
  • (n.) That which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions.
  • (n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.
  • (n.) Place of custody or confinement.
  • (n.) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
  • (2) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
  • (3) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (4) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
  • (5) The intent of this study was to investigate, by three-dimensional photoelastic analysis, the stress transmission that occurs with four commonly used retentive systems.
  • (6) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.
  • (7) Studies were performed to characterize the determinants of proximal tubule ammonia entry (and retention) in vivo.
  • (8) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
  • (9) From a total of 200 PRBB's with different designs and retention systems, 152 were selected for this analysis.
  • (10) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
  • (11) Nitrogen retention was curvilinear in relation to metabolic live weight (kg0.75) in both series.
  • (12) Retention of iron from an RKB test meal was increased from 69.6 to 73% when about 90% of the extractable tannins were removed, but the difference was not statistically significant.
  • (13) --The influence of the digestibility of the energy in the ration on the energetic retention effect of BFC is small.
  • (14) In the absence of adequate data exclusively from studies of inhaled particles in people, the results of inhalation studies using laboratory animals are necessary to estimate particle retention in exposed people.
  • (15) The retention of critical care nurses is an important priority of nursing administration.
  • (16) Baseline evaluation revealed that 17 (32%) patients had high turnover (HTOP), and 36 (68%) normal turnover osteoporosis (NTOP) as assessed by measurement of whole body retention (WBR) of 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate.
  • (17) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
  • (18) Alveolar deposition, however, assessed in terms of particle retention at 24 hours, was significantly (p less than 0.01) less in the smokers.
  • (19) This provides unequivocal evidence that partitioning is the dominant form of retention for small nonpolar solutes.
  • (20) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.

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