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Questions about compounds that lower the surface tension (or interfacial tension) between two liquids or between a liquid and a solid.
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Difference between Soap and Detergent
Similarly,
IUPAC defines a detergent as
"A surfactant (or a mixture containing one or more surfactants) having
cleaning properties in dilute solutions (soaps are surfactants and
detergents)"
Just like … banana is a fruit but not all fruits are bananas, in the same way, all water soluble soaps are detergents and surfactants. …
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What exactly happens while washing clothes
You have surfactants, bleaching agents, bleach catalysts, enzymes, water softeners, builders, foam regulators, EDTA, optical brighteners, anti-sudsing agents, soil anti-redeposition agents, perfume and …
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Quantifying soapiness; there's pH, pKa and pO2, is there a p_soap or p_surfactance?
The only common property of surfactants is the critical micellar concentration (CMC) but that has nothing to do with how clean our dishes or clothes look after a wash cycle. … Their detergent action comes from saponins and even that is not a pure compound but a class of compounds which foam in water naturally but there are not typical surfactants. …
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