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inactive ingredients

inactive ingredients is the plural of inactive ingredient.

Meaning of inactive ingredient

Noun

inactive ingredient (plural inactive ingredients)

  1. A component of a mixture product which does not directly contribute to the product's primary goal, but helps to make the product more stimulating to the consumer or to assist the active ingredient in some small manner.

Questions about inactive ingredients

What is inactive ingredients the plural of?
Inactive ingredients is the plural of inactive ingredient.

Words near inactive ingredients in the dictionary

  1. inactivations
  2. inactivator
  3. inactivators
  4. inactive
  5. inactive ingredient
  6. inactive ingredients
  7. inactively
  8. inactiveness
  9. inactives
  10. inactivism
  11. inactivist

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