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An Overview of Detergent
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At First my heartiest air towards to ALLAH, then thanks to our course teacher Mr.Rajib saha who give me chance to work regarding Detergent.

A detergent is an agent used for cleaning. Detergents are synthetic surfactants, which is produced from petrochemicals rather than fatty acids and oils. They are very effective in hard, soft as well as salt water. Detergents are the salts of long chain of hydrocarbons such as alkyl sulphates. A detergent has several advantages over soaps in which we can see in the following topics.

Detergents are commonly said to be synthetic detergents because it is produced from synthetic chemicals and not from natural higher fatty acids and oils. Detergents possess all the properties as soaps and used in hard, soft and salt water. Detergents can produce foam hard water as well as rarely even in cold water.

Detergents are the salts of sodium consist of sulphonated long chain hydrocarbons. They can be treated with sulphuric acid and alkali for neutralization.

DETERGENCY IN TEXTILE

Detergency: Ability of a detergent to lift soil (dirt and grease) from a surface by displacing it with chemicals (called surfactants) which adhere more readily to the surface being cleaned than to the soil.

Detergent : Basic detergents are surface active compound. The compound which get orient at the interface (Between water and air) and reduce interfacial tension/surface (The tendency of water of drawing the molecules from the surface towards the body is known as surface tension) are called active compound or detergent. Or
A substance that consists the removal of dirt. The removal is affected by emulsification or dissolution of the dirt particles and the substance normally has the power of suspending the dirt in cleaning liquid.

DETERGENT
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A detergent

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