Wetting Ability of Nonionic Surface Active Agents

Surfactants - Surface Active Agents

The definition for a detergent is a cleaning agent. The main cleaning agent used in earlier days was soap. This term means a compound formed from the reaction of a fatty acid with a base such as caustic soda, forming the sodium soap of the acid. The more commonly used cleaning agent in this day and age is the synthetic detergent (SYNDET) which is a formulation such as TIDE or FAB. The essential...

Silicone Surface-Active Agents

Wetting in mixtures of water, nonionic amphiphiles, and nonpolar solvents

Changes in morphology of an avirulent strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis under the influence of nonionic surface-active agents.

No. 1 (issued 12 February 1954) PAGE Some Sampling Variations in Soil Fungal Numbers. By R. E. ROSE and JEAN G. MILLER . Studies on the Antibacterial Action of Spermine. By R. ROZANSKY, U. BACHRACH and N. GROSSOWICZ The Mineral Nutritional Requirements of Mucor hiernalis Wehm. By P. G. FOTHERGILL and LAUREEN C. D. P. RAINE . The Pleuropneumonia Group of Organisms : a Review, together with some ...

Wetting and surface forces.

In this review we discuss the fundamental role of surface forces, with a particular emphasis on the effect of the disjoining pressure, in establishing the wetting regime in the three phase systems with both plane and curved geometry. The special attention is given to the conditions of the formation of wetting/adsorption liquid films on the surface of poorly wetted substrate and the possibility ...