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Offline OCD

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What is a repartition coefficient?
« on: January 01, 2007, 12:51:54 PM »
In my book:The unionised form has a big lipids-water repartition coefficient and thus it passes through the membrane .
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Re: What is a repartition coefficient?
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2007, 03:50:33 PM »
For a compound A, the repartition coefficient is the ratio conc. of A in solvent X/ conc. of A in solvent water
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