What is in aspirin?

Answer 1

Acetyl salicylic acid is the main and active ingredient in aspirin; it is this compound that results in all of its medically important properties. The other two ingredients in aspirin are: sand and sucrose.

Answer 2

Acetylsalicylic acid is the main ingredient It is both an organic ester and an organic acid. It is used extensively in medicine as a painkiller (analgesic) and as a fever-reducing drug (antipyretic)

Aspirin is Acetylsalicylic Acid. If it hangs around in the medicine cabinet with a little moist air, it begins hydrolyze into salicylic and acetic acids and begins to smell like ascetic acid. It's pretty stable in dry air.

(Some folks consider it a holagogue, but that's a bit of an exaggeration, IMHO.)

Answer 3

Aspirin is not an element. To be an element, a substance must have all the same type of atom. Once it has this, it can go on the Periodic Table. So, as Aspirin has many different types of atom in it, it's not an element.

Answer 4

The main ingredient is acetylsalicylic acid, the painkiller and the fever reducer. The inactive ingredients are carnauba wax, corn starch, hypromellose, powdered cellulose, and triacetin, which make up most of the tablet.

Answer 5

acetacylic acid has been in use since the Egyptians

Answer 6

acetylsalicylic acid