| aluminum hydroxide |
white crystalline compound that occurs naturally as the mineral gibbsite
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| aluminum hydroxide |
a white, bulky, amorphous powder, Al(OH) 3 , used as an antacid, and as a phosphate binder in the treatment of urolithiasis and hyperphosphatemia in the form of aluminum hydroxide gel or dried aluminum hydroxide gel (see under gel); it is also used as an adjuvant in adsorbed vaccines and toxoids.
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| aluminum hydroxide g. |
[USP] a suspension of amorphous aluminum hydroxide in which there is partial substitution of carbonate for hydroxide; used as a gastric antacid, especially in treatment of peptic ulcer, and as a phosphate binder in treatment of hyperphosphatemia and phosphate nephrolithiasis. Called also colloidal aluminum hydroxide.
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