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2. Detergent - Wikipedia

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   Detergents. A detergent is a surfactant or a mixture of surfactants with cleansing properties when in dilute solutions. [1] There are a large variety of detergents. A common family is the alkylbenzene sulfonates, which are soap-like compounds that are more soluble than soap in hard water, because the polar sulfonate is less likely than the polar carboxylate of soap to bind to calcium and other ...

3. Laundry detergent - Wikipedia

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   Most detergents use a combination of various surfactants to balance their performance. Until the 1950s, soap was the predominant surfactant in laundry detergents. By the end of the 1950s so-called "synthetic detergents" (syndets) like branched alkylbenzene sulfonates had largely replaced soap in developed countries.

4. Alkylbenzene sulfonate - Wikipedia

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   Alkylbenzene sulfonates are a class of anionic surfactants, ... and household-care products (laundry detergent, dishwashing liquid, spray cleaner etc.). [1] ...

5. Do laundry sheets actually work? Here's what a product ...

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   Even though liquid detergents can contain mostly water, they still have the volume advantage for surfactants and enzymes — the stuff that makes soap work. However, the disparity in performance ...

6. Surfactant - Wikipedia

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   Surfactants play an important role as cleaning, wetting, dispersing, emulsifying, foaming and anti-foaming agents in many practical applications and products, including detergents, fabric softeners, motor oils, emulsions, soaps, paints, adhesives, inks, anti-fogs, ski waxes, snowboard wax, deinking of recycled papers, in flotation, washing and ...

7. Sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate - Wikipedia

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   Sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate (NOBS) is an important component of laundry detergents and bleaches. It is known as a bleach activator for active oxygen sources, allowing formulas containing hydrogen peroxide releasing chemicals (specifically sodium perborate , sodium percarbonate , sodium perphosphate , sodium persulfate , and urea peroxide ...