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Published in final edited form as: Dent Mater. 2008 Dec 25;25(5):10.1016/j.dental.2008.11.005. doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2008.11.005

Table 4.

Maximum rate of cure (DC%/s) (mean ± SD) (expressed in percentages) for the 5 neat resins and their respective resin/ethanol mixtures (and time into exposure) when maximum rate of cure occurred

Ethanol %	R1		R2		R3		R4		R5
Ethanol %	DC%/s	s	DC%/s	s	DC%/s	s	DC%/s	s	DC%/s	s
0	5.8±0.5^A	2.0±0.6^a	9.5±0.7^A	3.2±0.7^a	10.0±0.5^A	3.5±0.5^a	9.5±0.5^A	4.2±0.4^a	7.6±0.4^A	4.6±0.5^a
10	3.9±0.2^B	1.5±0.6^a	11.7±0.5^B	1.6±0.5^b	10.5±0.7^A	3.8±0.7^a	7.7±1.0^B	6.7±1.1^b	8.3±0.4^A	5.5±0.5^a
20	2.8±0.3^C	2.4±1.5^a	6.1±0.8^C	4.5±1.0^c	4.3±0.3^B	11.4±1.1^b	4.5±0.2^C	14.3±1.1^c	4.1±0.2^B	9.7±1.1^b
30	1.7±0.1^D	7.0±1.6^b	3.2±0.2^D	6.6±1.6^d	2.5±0.1^C	15.9±2.8^c	1.9±0.1^D	6.5±2.0^b	2.7±0.2^C	10.0±2.2^b

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The DC%/s values are expressed as mean values ± standard deviations. Within a given resin, means followed by the same superscript letter indicate no difference (p<.05) among each resin.