PHARMACEUTICAL

MANUFACTURING
ENCYCLOPEDIA
Third Edition
Volume 1
A through B

Volume 2
C through G

Volume 3
H through P

Volume 4
Q through Z
Raw Materials Index
Trade Names Index
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pharmaceutical manufacturing encyclopedia. -- 3rd ed.

p. ; cm.
Rev. ed. of: Pharmaceutical manufacturing encyclopedia / by Marshall
Sittig. c1988.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8155-1526-5 (set : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8155-1526-X (set : alk paper)
1. Drugs--Synthesis--Dictionaries. 2. Pharmaceutical
chemistry--Dictionaries. I. Sittig, Marshall. Pharmaceutical manufacturing
encyclopedia. II. William Andrew Publishing.
[DNLM: 1. Pharmaceutical Preparations--Encyclopedias--English. 2.
Chemistry, Pharmaceutical--Encyclopedias--English. QV 13 P536 2007]

RS402.5.S58 2007
615'.19--dc22
2006023472

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