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Is sorbitol a surfactant?
No, sorbitol is not a surfactant. Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol commonly used as a sweetener and humectant in foods and personal care products. Surfactants are molecules that lower the surface tension between two substances.
What do surfactant do?
A surface-active agent 'surfactant' usually cleans something. ie -soap is a surfactant.
Surfactant that cover the respiratory membranes?
Surfactant is pleural fluid.
What surfactant is in a lava lamp?
Lava lamps typically use a surfactant called ethoxylated alcohol or a similar compound. Surfactants in lava lamps help to lower the surface tension of the liquids inside the lamp, allowing the colored wax blobs to move and flow more easily.
What does a surfactant do?
The main function or job of a surfactant is to reduce surface tension. This process is used on liquids while it dissolves.
How effective is surfactant therapy?
Normally surfactant replacement therapy keeps the infant alive until the lungs start producing their own surfactant.
Which surfactant lacks in a new born baby?
I have never heard the surfactant called anything specific. Full term babies usually have surfactant (a mixture of lipids (fats) and proteins). Premature babies many times do not have enough surfactant to keep the alveoli of their lungs open, so artificial surfactant is put into the trachea, sometimes more than once.
What is coconut diethanolamide?
surfactant
Cas number of Triton DF-20 surfactant?
28805-58-5 < 63.0 %;Anionic surfactant blend > 35.0 %
What is in windshield washer fluid?
Washerfluid is a solution of alcohol and water with a surfactant added for cleaning action. The alcohol is typically methyl alcohol or methanol with some brands utilizing isopropol alochol is some portion. The freeze point of the washerfluid is different in various states and Canadian provinces. The strong stuff in Canada doesnt freeze until about -40oC (-40oF) and is flammable. The main goal is to get the washerfluid onto the windshield to clean. If it makes it through the little tube then it has done its job. Summer bug wash is just a water and surfactant mix and has no freeze protection.
Breathing properly requires the presence of what compound that affects surface tension of alveoli in the lungs?
The correct answer is Surfactant
What is the difference between mucus surfactant and pleural fluid?
Surfactant is when your mum produces something bad into the mouth of your daddy
