Product Short Description:
ETHYL CELLULOSE
Product Description:
Ethylcellulose is used in pharmaceutical technology as a coating agent, flavoring fixative, binder, filler, film-former, drug carrier, or stabilizer. Ethyl Cellulose is a natural occurring polymer too. It is found in wood and can be extracted from wood pulp. ... "Ethyl Cellulose is a cellulose ether in which ethyl groups replace hydrogen in the hydroxyl groups of glucose residues."(3) In other words it is made by the reaction of alkali cellulose with ethyl chloride
