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What is the detergent-like substance which reduces the surface tension in the lungs?
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∙ 12y ago
Surfactant! or 'Pulmonary Surfactant' Just had one of those moments too :)
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∙ 12y ago
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What are surfactants?
A substance that tends to reduce the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved.
The fluid that lines the alveoli contains a substance that reduces surface tension known as?
surfactant
What is any substance that interferes with the hydrogen bonding between water molecules and reduces surface tension?
These substances are called surfactants.
What reduces surface tension in water?
surfactants
The sustance that reduces surface tensin in the alveoli is?
Surfactant is a substance which lines the inside of alveoli. It is composed of a phospholipid bilayer, which have hydrophyllic and hydrophobic properties. This allows it to reduce surface tension.
Reduces the surface tension of the fluid in the alveoli?
surfactant
How much surfactant is in a bar of soap?
A surfactant is a substance that, when mixed with a liquid, reduces its surface tension. There are usually two or more surfactants in a bar of soap.
Why does soap reduce the surface tension of water?
Soap will lower the surface tension of water. Like any surfactant soap will lower the surface energy by disrupting the strong inter-molecular hydrogen bonding that confers such a strong surface tension to water.
What substance has the largest surface tension at room temperature?
The highest surface tension at 15 0C is the surface tension of mercury: 487 dyn/cm.
Why is a substance able to flow?
Because of surface tension
How do the properties of the water molecule affect surface tension?
The surface tension of water is due to the hydrogen bonds contained in it.When sugar is added to it,the dissolution process occurs which leads to the breaking of the hydrogen bonds in water by the hydration energy generated by the interaction of sugar and water.Therefore sugar reduces the surface tension in water
What is an example of an organism that benefits from reducing surface tension?
Humans benefit greatly from the work of Pulmonary surfactant which reduces the surface tension in the alveoli of the lungs. This reduction in alveolar surface tension prevents the alveoli from collapsing and thus causing suffocation.
