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I don’t understand why they are still referring to acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) as Aspirin. Aspirin today can be a mixture of ingredients but what the described e
by sharpshadow 2y ago
I don’t understand why they are still referring to acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) as Aspirin.
Aspirin today can be a mixture of ingredients but what the described effects are about is ASA.
- juujian 2y agoIf I was a copy editor and read the draft title "Scientists crack how acetylsalicylic acid might stop cancers from spreading" I would stop the author right there.
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- sevensor 2y agoNews to me, what else do they put in it?
- hnuser123456 2y agoSome people are just learning pills are not a single solid block of pure active ingredient.
- sevensor 2y agoYes, that’s me. What else is in aspirin?
- hnuser123456 2y agoStuff that allows it to form a solid block instead of powder. Stuff to time how long it takes to dissolve (how else can there be fast-acting and slow-acting versions?) Stuff to make the pills large enough to see with your eyes. A grain of sand is about 20 milligrams. Low-dose aspirin is 80 milligrams, but the pill is a much more convenient size than 4 grains of sand. (or 8 grains of sand, since sand is about twice as dense as pure ASA)
- c420 2y agoA 20mg grain of sand is either not a grain or not sand
- chiph 2y agoDoing the conversion - 20 milligrams is 0.308647 grains So you're correct. (had to use Google - I only know that there are 7000 grains to the pound)
- hnuser123456 2y agoI am GP and did more research and need to post a correction but it's too late to edit my former comment. The grain, in terms of weight, is 64.8 milligrams, or much more than a even a course grain of sand, which it turns out, is somewhere around 1 milligram, ranging from 0.04 mg for fine sand to 4 mg for very course sand, average around 0.3.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoExcedrin brand in the US has tablets with caffeine and aspirin, for example, but people might just call them aspirin (my grandmother, for example).
- pogue 2y agoA mixture of ingredients? If you mean a standard aspirin tablet, it will have fillers and binders in it to keep the tablet together and help it break down in the GI tract and etc, but in essence anything labeled aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin
- Angostura 2y agoFrom the first line of Wikipedia: "Aspirin is the genericized trademark for acetylsalicylic acid (ASA)" That's why
- the__alchemist 2y agoASA is an unfortunate acronym here: You might consider the Accessible Surface Area of immune-system proteins, in accessing interaction with the aspirin molecule!
- mharig 2y ago[dead]
- ziddoap 2y agoIf the title said "acetylsalicylic acid (ASA)", I would not have known what they were talking about. But I do know what Aspirin is.
- Aloisius 2y agoThe actual paper used aspirin: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08626-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08626-7