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  2. Antihemorrhagic - Wikipedia

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    Anhydrous aluminium sulfate is the main ingredient and acts as a vasoconstrictor in order to disable blood flow. The stick is applied directly to the bleeding site. The high ionic strength promotes flocculation of the blood, and the astringent chemical causes local vasoconstriction

  3. Aluminium sulfate - Wikipedia

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    Aluminium sulfate may be used as a deodorant, an astringent, or as a styptic for superficial shaving wounds. [citation needed] Aluminium sulfate is used as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles. It is a common vaccine adjuvant and works "by facilitating the slow release of antigen from the vaccine depot formed at the site of inoculation."

  4. Reference ranges for blood tests - Wikipedia

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    Still, the blood values are approximately equal between the arterial and venous sides for most substances, with the exception of acid–base, blood gases and drugs (used in therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) assays). [6] Arterial levels for drugs are generally higher than venous levels because of extraction while passing through tissues. [6]

  5. Alum - Wikipedia

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    Alum in the form of potassium aluminium sulphate or ammonium aluminium sulfate in a concentrated bath of hot water is regularly used by jewelers and machinists to dissolve hardened steel drill bits that have broken off in items made of aluminum, copper, brass, gold (any karat), silver (both sterling and fine) and stainless steel. This is ...

  6. Potassium alum - Wikipedia

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    Potassium alum, potash alum, or potassium aluminium sulfate is a chemical compound first mentioned under various Sanskrit names in Ayurvedic medicinal texts such as charak samhita, sushrut samhita, and ashtang hridaya; is chemically defined as the double sulfate of potassium and aluminium, with chemical formula KAl(SO 4) 2.

  7. Aluminium toxicity in people on dialysis - Wikipedia

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    Aluminium toxicity: Symptoms: Acute or subacute changes in mental status, proximal muscle weakness, bone pain, numerous nonhealing fractures, and early osteoporosis. [1] Causes: High levels of aluminium in water used to prepare dialysate. [2] Diagnostic method: Blood aluminium concentrations greater than 100 mcg/L. [1] Treatment

  8. Could potassium levels in blood help diagnose Alzheimer ... - AOL

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    What potassium isotopes could say about Alzheimer’s risk. Using 20 blood samples — 10 from people with Alzheimer’s disease and 10 without — Mahan and his team compared levels of potassium ...

  9. Sulfhemoglobinemia - Wikipedia

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    It causes cyanosis even at low blood levels. It is a rare blood condition in which the β-pyrrole ring of the hemoglobin molecule has the ability to bind irreversibly to any substance containing a sulfur atom. [1] [2] When hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) (or sulfide ions) and ferrous ions combine in the heme of hemoglobin, the blood is thus incapable ...