The phrase "about as potent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the effectiveness or strength of two things, indicating that they are similar in potency.
Example: "The new formula is about as potent as the original, providing similar results."
Alternatives: "equally effective" or "similarly strong".
As Masha whirls around the stage draped in the bearskins in which Roerich clothed the old men who watched a girl dance herself to death, she's about as potent a symbol of female power as can be imagined.
Preliminary tests show that the vaccine, a relatively harmless virus called vaccinia, is still viable, and about as potent as the 15 million doses of Dryvax, the vaccine already in the U.S. stockpile.
Don't be fooled by the "special price" – "Smokey" is not your mate: at best, he's trying to shift the dregs of his supply; at worst, he feels guilty that what he's selling you is about as potent as a bottle of Beck's Blue.
Thus, the above constituents of propolis are about as potent as antioxidants as the typical antioxidants tested here.
The IC50 value was about 1 μM for flutamide, and TBP and 4-OH-BDE-17 were about as potent, while BDE-39 was clearly less antiandrogenic.
This sham was about half as potent in inducing MEPs over the motor cortex as active TMS.
As a second-generation semi-synthetic taxane derivative, docetaxel (DTX) is about twice as potent as paclitaxel in inhibiting microtubule depolymerization, and has the unique ability to alter certain classes of microtubules [2], which differs from most spindle poisons currently used in clinic.
GSH depletion did not change the potency of SNP, but GSH depletion made SNAP about twice as potent as SNP.
The alcohol content typically runs a little lower than 40 proof, making it about half as potent as spirits like whiskey or vodka.
10i have a Kiapp of 11.5 nM, which is about 4 times as potent as chlorsulfuron (52.4 nM).
Over a 100-year timeframe, methane is about 35 times as potent as a climate change-driving greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and over 20 years, it's 84 times more potent.
