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SURFACTANT

ClassOfCompound

http://data.posccaesar.org/rdl/RDS97852958106

hasCreationDate2008.12.16
hasCreatorjohef
hasDefinitionA surface-active compound (surfactant), i.e. a substance used as a wetting agent that lowers the surface tension of a liquid, allowing easier spreading, and lowers the interfacial tension between two liquids.
hasDesignationSURFACTANT
hasIdPCARDS97852958106
hasNoteA surfactant consists of one or more hydrophilic and one or more hydrophobic groups of such a nature and size that is capable of reducing the surface tension of water, and of forming spreading or adsorption monolayers at the water-air interface, and of forming emulsions and/or microemulsions and/or micelles, and of adsorption at water-solid interfaces.

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