Category:Surfactants
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The surfactants   (translated from Russian)
The surfactants Pove?rkhnostno-akti?vnye substances? (PAV) - the ...
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Laundry detergent
... of organic compounds which can function as surfactants. Most surfactants are thick, viscous liquids, but some are soft, waxy or greasy solids. Surfactants typically have somewhat longer molecules which may ... or may not have a electric charge. Surfactants with uncharged molecules are non-ionic surfactants. Surfactants with positively charged molecules (or ...
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Surfactant
Surfactant This article is about surfactants in general. For the compound produced by alveolar cells, see pulmonary surfactant. Surfactants are wetting agents that lower the surface ... is a contraction of "Surface active agent". Surfactants are usually organic compounds that are amphipathic ... organic solvents and water. Operation and effects Surfactants reduce the surface tension of water by ... adsorbing at the liquid-liquid interface. Many surfactants can also assemble in the bulk ...
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Shampoo
... similar products; both were often made from surfactants, a type of detergent. Shampoo became the ... variety of different hair types. Now, synthetic surfactants are primarily used in shampoo. Hair conditioner ... collect dirt, styling products and scalp flakes. Surfactants clean hair by stripping sebum from hair ... soaps and shampoos contain the cleaning agent surfactants, soap is specifically designed to clean the ... is applied to wet hair, the anionic surfactants are adsorbed onto the hair shaft ...
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Detergent
... any of various components having several properties: surfactants to 'cut' grease and to wet surfaces ... and destruction of dirt materials other than surfactants to keep dirt in suspension enzymes to ... modifying the foaming properties of the cleaning surfactants, to either stabilize or counteract foam plus ... analytical chemistry, a high foaming mixture of surfactants with low skin irritation - for hand washing ... a while during the infancy of other surfactants as commercial detergent products, the term " ...
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Micelle
... contact with water, regardless of whether the surfactants exist as monomers or as part of ... interactions that occur between charged (or ionic) surfactants. Micelles composed of ionic surfactants are surrounded by a "cloud" of tightly ... and lead to larger ionic micelles. When surfactants are present above the CMC, they can ... on your hands. The emulsifying ability of surfactants is also the basis for emulsion ...
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Critical micelle concentration
... CMC) is defined as the concentration of surfactants in free solution in equilibrium with surfactants in aggregated form. There are several theoretical ... that CMC is the total concentration of surfactants under the conditions: if C = CMC, (d ... The self-organisation of the molecules of surfactants and lipids depends on the concentration of ...
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Hair conditioner
... acids. Hair conditioners therefore often contain cationic surfactants, which don't wash out completely, because ... heavy and thick, with high content of surfactants able to bind to the hair structure ... to the hair for longer time. The surfactants are based on long straight aliphatic chains ... surface. Leave-in conditioners, thinner, containing different surfactants, adding only a little material to the ...
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Fire retardant foam
... resulting in suppression of the combustion. The surfactants used have to produce foam in concentration ... Synthetic foams are foams based on synthetic surfactants. Synthetic foams provide better flow, faster knockdown ... sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as surfactants. They have the ability to spread over ...
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