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Surfactant is used in the lungs to break water tension within the alveoli. Without it, the alveoli will collapse and you will suffocate and die.
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Why does oil miscible in solution of surf and water?
Presumably you mean surfactant and water? A classic surfactant molecule has a polar, hydrophilic end and a non-polar hydrocarbon liophilic end. With enough of a suitable surfactant, oil droplets will form with the liophilic part of surfactant molecules dissolved in the droplets and water molecules attached to the hydrophilic part of the surfactant. The oil disperses in the water.
The lipophilic tail of a surfactant molecule is considered to be?
Water loving
What interferes with hydrogen bonding between water molecules?
A surfactant.
Wetting agent that interferes with hydrogen bonding in water?
surfactant
What describes the role of surfactant in the respiratory system?
Surfactant helps reduce surface tension within the alveoli, thus preventing each alveolus from callapsing as air moves in and out during respiration.
Why is surfactant important in alveoli?
Surfactant reduces the surface tension within in your lungs, your alveoli have a wet surface and if surfactant were not present they would stick together causing a difficulty in expanding your thoracic cavity-so you wouldn't be able to breath without surfactant.
What are solid shampoos?
Basically it is detergent (surfactant/soap) but without water or with very little water.
Suspensions can be wetted before adding water by using a wetting agent or a?
surfactant
Can you emulsifier instead of surfactant?
Emulsion two types.1.Oil in water 2.water in oil.-- both will increases their viscosity. surfactant meant : De-emulsification which is quite opposite to emulsifier agent.surfactant decrease viscosity.
What do surfactant do?
A surface-active agent 'surfactant' usually cleans something. ie -soap is a surfactant.
What is the role of Zimbabwean government in industrial relations?
background of industrial relation in nigeria
Surfactant that cover the respiratory membranes?
Surfactant is pleural fluid.
