Abstract
Ease or difficulty of sugar coating procedure cannot be measured easily by a physical method. Factors affecting this procedure would be the shape of the tablets to be sugar-coated, and nature of liquids, powders, and tablets to be sugar-coated. It would be of advantage to know the shape or form of tablets which would make the sugar-coating process easier. For these reasons, considerations were made on the form or shape of tablets to be coated, making other factors constant, and an empirical formula was derived from status analysis for tablet form that would express the ease or difficulty of the procedure. Examinations were also made on the compatibility of this empirical formula. It was thereby learned that if the tablets to be sugar-coated had a shape that would make the coefficient for the ease or difficulty of sugar-coating procedure constant, sugar-coating can be carried out with the same degree of ease or difficulty, irrespective of the size of the tablets.
