active ingredient
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active ingredient
noun active ingredients
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The specific compound in a natural or man-made mixture that is responsible for the mixture's activity.
Opposite: inactive ingredient
- The essence of something, or a sine qua non that it requires. I think many humans never learn how to do this, either. They assume that our existence is nothing more than an endless lurching in the direction of the things you want, and never actually getting them. Life is hard and then you die; stick a needle in your eye! There are people with the opposite prob
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noun component responsible of activity
| Español | principio activo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 有效成分 yǒuxiào chéngfèn |
| Deutsch | Wirkstoff, Arzneimittelwirkstoff |
| Italiano | principio attivo |
| Ελληνικά | δραστικό συστατικό drastikó systatikó |
| Русский | действующее вещество dejstvujuščeje veščestvo |
| العربية | مَادَّة فَعَّالَة |
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