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What is Setting time of alginate is best regulated by the: and explain in detail?
Though setting time of alginate can be changed or regulated by any of the above method, but most of them leads to changes or aﬀect the properties of ﬁnal set alginate. Only available best method to regulate it is by a speciﬁc amount of retarder added during the manufacturing process.
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Setting time of Fast-setting alginate = 1.5 to 3 min
Setting time of Normal-setting alginate = 3 to 4.5 min