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your hospital pharmacy makes a fortified tobramycin eyedrops that is 13.6% in a 10 ml bottle. How many milligrams of a drug are in a bottle of eyedrops?
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The ratio of mass of solute present in a solution relative to the volume of the solution represents the mass/volume percentage of a solution.
Tobramycin is an antibiotic that is used to treat eye infections. It belong to a class of antibiotic called aminoglycosides. This antibiotic stops the growth of bacteria and are to be used only to treat bacterial eye infections. Tobramycin in available in the form of eye drops and ointments.
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