Question

Swelling Index is used to determine amount of the following in the crude drugs

Answer 1

Answer:

The swelling index is used to determine the purity of oil or a particular material. For a particular oil the swelling index is constant. As a result of this is the swelling index is found alternate to the original material then there is some impurities present in that particular material.

Answer 2

The Swelling Index is used to determine the value of the following in raw materials by:

• Inflammation index is used to determine the inflammatory dose of a given raw material.
• When a medicine is immersed in water in a measuring cylinder it swells after a while by absorbing it.
• Measurement cylinder, lid, filtered water, spatula, weight balance, and sample of raw material.
• Procedure: Weight of about 1 gm of a given sample of raw material.
• Transfer the sample to a 25 ml measuring cylinder and fill the 20 ml mark with distilled water.
• Place a clean, dry, 25 ml cylinder on a tarred scale.
• Record the weight of the graduated cylinder (g), in data.
• Fill the completed cylinder with 5.0 ml of distilled water; use a short stem pipe to help measure exactly 5.0 ml of water.
• Record the volume in the Data Table.