Surface Active Chemicals

Surface Active Chemicals resents a number of applications of surface activity. This book provides a discussion of bulk solution phase properties, which is important for proper understanding of surface phenomena. Organized into seven chapters, this book begins with an overview of the works of cohesion of some organic liquids and their woks of adhesion to water. This text then describes the properties of ordinary soaps, which consist of blends of alkali-metal or organic base salts of fatty acids of from eight to eighteen carbon atoms. Other chapters consider the characteristic of soapy lather by the addition of excess fatty acid to soap, which raises its proportion in the surface layer still further and tends to make the lather even creamier. This book discusses as well the processes for the extraction of bone glue. The final chapter deals with the statistics of production and sales for soaps and detergents. This book is a valuable resource for chemists and senior students.

Editors' PrefaceChapter 1. General Principles Introduction Intermolecular Forces Solubility-General Solubility of Tensides Solubility of High Polymers Co-Solvency, Hydrotropy, and Solubilization Adsorption Surface and Interfacial Tension Surface Tension of Solutions Cohesion and Adhesion Spreading and Wetting Surface Deformation Adhesives-Theoretical Foams Emulsions and Creams Detergency Water Conservation Reading ListChapter 2. Soap and Detergents Introduction Soap-Making Non-Soap Detergents-Introductory Fatty Alcohol Sulphates Secondary Alkyl Sulphates Fatty Sulphonates Alkylbenzene Sulphonates Medialans and Lamepons Igepons Sulphosuccinates and Sulphocarballylates Polyalcohol Monoalkyl Sulphates Non-Ionic Detergents Cationics Ampholytes Reading ListChapter 3. Ancillary Surface Active Chemicals Lather Promoters Hydrotropes Reading ListChapter 4. The Manufacture of Adhesives Animal Glues Bone and Hide Glues Fish Glues Blood Glues Casein Glues Vegetable Glues Soyabean Glues Starches and Dextrins Modified Starches Cellulosics Rubber Synthetic Glues Rubber-Like Polymers Formaldehyde Condensates Epoxy Adhesives Isocyanate-Derived Adhesives Other Synthetic Polymer Adhesives Reading ListChapter 5. Flocculating Agents Introduction Kinetics of Coagulation Dilute Dispersions Concentrated Dispersions Molecular Mechanism of the Action of Organic Flocculants Synthetic Organic Flocculants Reading ListChapter 6. Dispersing AgentsChapter 7. Commercial AspectsGlossary and NotationIndex