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In simple words surfactants are surface active agents.
Surfactants are used to enable substances to mix with water, they have a water hating and water loving structure, the water loving part interferes with water, and kind of acts like a bodyguard to protect the water hating part. So that, if water hating substances were to be added, the bodyguards--these being the water liking aspect of the surfactant--would allow the water hating aspects of the surfactant structure to interact with the water hating substances, so that all 3 entities- water, surfactant, water hating substance, could interact at peace in water. It's like a mediator.
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∙ 13y agoIt is short for surface active agent. They are large molecules that are partially nonpolar and partially polar. Polar interacts with water...as nonpolar interacts with grease or dirt.
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∙ 12y agoSurfactants, or surface active agents, reduce the surface tension of a liquid. What this means is it breaks the boundary on the surface of a liquid. If a bug lands on pond, the water holds it up. Actually, the water doesn't hold it up, it's the surface tension of the water holds it up. If surfactants are added to the water, the surface tension is broken up, and the bug would sink.
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∙ 6y agoPulmonary surfactant is a complex and highly surface active material composed of lipids and proteins which is found in the fluid lining the alveolar surface of the lungs.
Surfactant prevents alveolar collapse at low lung volume, and preserves bronchiolar patency (keeps it open) during normal and forced respiration (biophysical functions).
In addition, it is involved in the protection of the lungs from injuries and infections caused by inhaled particles and micro-organisms.
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∙ 11y agosurafecants are molecules that produce when you cough sneeze or laugh they are sometimes thing that produce out your butt
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∙ 10y agoA surfactant is a compound that lowers the surface tension of a liquid. A surfactant may act as a detergent, wetting agent, foaming agent, dispersant or emulsifier.
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∙ 10y agoA type of detergent
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