Agents that modify interfacial tension of water; usually substances that have one lipophilic and one hydrophilic group in the molecule; includes soaps, detergents, emulsifiers, dispersing and wetting agents, and several groups of antiseptics.
    

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Surfactant in newborn lung

Hair care secrets.

Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces

Surface phenomena in chemistry and biology / edited by J.F. Danielli, K.G.A. Pankhurst, A.C. Riddiford.

Dispersion and persistence of synthetic detergents in ground water, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties : [a report to the State Water Quality Control Board, September 1964.

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Hair care secrets.

Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces

Surface phenomena in chemistry and biology / edited by J.F. Danielli, K.G.A. Pankhurst, A.C. Riddiford.

Surfactant in newborn lung

Dispersion and persistence of synthetic detergents in ground water, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties : [a report to the State Water Quality Control Board, September 1964.