Cosolvent

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In pharmacy, a cosolvent is a solvent that is added to a drug form in the manufacturing process in order to improve the solubility of a drug . The solubility of a drug in a solvent mixture is often better than the solubility in the two individual solvent components suggests. An example of a cosolvent is ethanol .

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Langguth and Joachim Seydel: Revised glossary of terms used in pharmaceuticals , Angewandte Chemie 123 (2011) 3635–3651.