>From curiosity... when you were doing this, did you agitate your 
solutions, or just let them sit?  Keep in mind that a human's 
innards, when digestion is happening, ain't just sittin' 
still...Peristalsis does play a part in the process.   

> however, what we noticed in the hot (140F fluids) is that the enteric
> coating expanded (in one case rupturing and spilling the contents); but
> never dissolved. It may be, we leap to surmise from this tiny
> observation, that this is the secret of the timed release -- the coating
> expands enough to let the medicine out through its pores, one grain at a
> time.....
> 
               Albest,

                        Clayton

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