This study examined the mixing of salicylic acid and wheat starch powders using a V-type mixer. The researchers investigated the optimum operating conditions of the mixer and how mixing characteristics were affected by dilution ratio, particle size of the active ingredient, and addition of lubricants. They found that the coefficient of variation followed a power law related to dilution ratio and particle size, and that mixing cohesive pharmaceutical powders is a complex stochastic process not fully explained by simple random mixing theories.