Relationship between compacting progress of pharmaceutical powder and measurement variation of apparent density in the case of compacting phenomenon by means of tapping and compacting phenomenon in course of mixing with 1% calcium stearate was examined. At the beginning of compacting of a powder, measurement variation of apparent density decreased with progress of compacting, and their relationship was shown by experimental equation (1). σ
N/ρ
N×100=κ
1 log △ε
N+κ
2(1) where N is progress of compacting, i.e., number of tapping or cumulative revolution of the mixer, ρ
N is the mean value of measured apparent density, σ
N is standard deviation, △ε
N is differential change of porosity between compacting progress N and N+1, and κ
1 and κ
2 are experimental constants. After a certain degree of compacting progress, σ
N/ρ
N×100 did not decrease with decrease of log △ε
N, but became constant. This was considered to be an unavoidal experimental error. σ
N/ρ
N×100=κ
3 (2) Experimental constant κ
3 was thought to change according to the apparatus for measurement, powder, and other conditions. Equation (2) did not apply when abnormal phenomenon, such as segregation of particles in tapping, was likely to occur.
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