stackyFACTSWithout highly specialized industrial glue, your medicine would just be a disappointing pile of dust. Binders like microcrystalline cellulose are forcibly compressed under literal tons of mechanical pressure to lock the microscopic active chemical particles together into a solid, unyielding puck.
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