Sentences with phrase «surfactant which»

Saponin is an all - natural surfactant which lowers the surface tension between your laundry and the wash water then bonding itself to the fibers of your laundry, literally lifting and removing stains, dirt, grease, and grime while simultaneously eliminating any odors and naturally softening your clothes.

The nanosurfactant combines several characteristics of each «active» molecular surfactant which allows a tremendous flexibility whereby liquid droplets can be manipulated.

Made without: Harsh detergents, sulfates, soap bases, alcohol, and chemical surfactants which can strip skin, cause imbalance, and irritate skin.

Not exact matches

Although at this time, lung surfactants, which aid in lung expansion after the birth of the baby, is already present, the lungs are still very immature to function properly like sending out oxygen to the bloodstream during inhalation and releasing carbon dioxide during exhalation.

Today's commercial detergents (such as Tide and Gain) do not contain phosphates, but they do have a high concentration of surfactants (surface active agents) which contribute to their cleaning power and are less sensitive to water hardness.

Insulin can also delay the production of surfactant, which prepares the lungs for breathing.

It's nothing crazy fancy like using enzymes to get rid of stains, but the variations of the chemicals used here, for example Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or SLS (among a number of others), which is people are commonly warned of, are actually plant based surfactants.

It contains a combination of plant - based surfactants and extracts of grapefruit seed which has been shown to effectively remove tough, ground - in stains.

During this period of nine - month pregnancy, the baby's lungs will be fully developed and surfactant production will be increased, which helps the baby to breath after birth.

Hard water, full of metal ions, can neutralise surfactants, so detergents usually contain water softeners, known as builders and chelating agents, which take metal ions out of circulation.

For this, shampoos contain specific ingredients called surfactants, which are the main ingredients in shampoos besides water.

Scientists at the Center for Soft and Living Matter, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), made a surfactant based on nanoparticle dimers, which is responsive to multiple stimuli.

For example, they found also accelerated adaptation for a gene encoding a lung surfactant protein (SFTPB), which may have been due to lung changes necessary for diving.

Importantly, patients with mutations in a single copy of NKX2.1 often have Brain - Lung - Thyroid Syndrome, which is characterized by respiratory distress after birth and accompanied by decreased surfactant protein expression.

The fundamental insights provided by this device could also prove useful for other materials in which dynamic changes occur between membranes, including surfactant monolayers and bilayers, biomolecules, colloidal particles, surfactant - coated nanoparticles and smart materials.

Huber and his team first covered the surface with a surfactant, the molecules of which form a single thin layer.

The researchers found that using their model, they could closely predict the speed at which a surfactant spread.

At issue is the $ 20 million, 23 - institution SUPPORT (Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial) study, which from 2005 to 2009 studied the levels of oxygen that premature infants should receive.

They also measured the «shear stress» or intensity with which the surfactant drags the water.

Bandi and his colleagues worked from a mathematical model developed by Brown University professor, Shreyas Mandre, which predicts how a liquid like water interacts with a surfactant — a liquid like soap or detergent, which have lower surface tension, introduced at its surface.

Anton Fagerström's research has focused on the interaction between the cuticle which is the outermost layer of the plant leaf, and plant protection products and surfactants, surface - acting agents that are added to increase the effect of the plant protection product.

Different chemicals used for the field include inhibitors for scaling, fouling, corrosion, asphaltene control, formation damage, differential pressures in multiphase environments which will be met by new synthesis methods including metathesis reactions, bio based feedstocks, new polymer surfactants, living polymers, and nanoparticle.

Takayama's team was able to confirm that the sounds were associated with injury to the cells — suggesting that the model was accurately approximating what happens in a diseased lung — and to show how a therapeutic surfactant, which lowers the tension between liquids and solids, could reduce those injuries.

Basic biological compartmentalisation is a key property of artificial cells and existing solutions are found in self - assembled amphiphiles, polymers, inorganic molecules and protein - surfactant conjugates which form membrane delineated aqueous droplets, however the interior of these compartments are typically homogeneous and therefore do not mimic the crowded heterogeneous cytoplasm of natural cells.

Coleman adds, hastily, that the recipe involves a delicate balance of surfactant and graphite, which he has not yet disclosed (this barrier dissuaded me from trying it out; he is preparing a detailed kitchen recipe for later publication).

And if you're a beauty product purist, it's important to know that the only way to get oils and balms to emulsify is by adding surfactants, which means it won't be 100 percent free of synthetic chemicals.

Like soap, propylene glycol is a surfactant, which means it can break the barrier between fat and water.

Our cell membranes are made with thin layers of fat molecules, which can be easily disrupted by surfactants like propylene glycol.

Soap nuts, which are not truly nuts but rather berries, are a natural surfactant called saponin.

Our Borax powder is a cosmetic grade Sodium Borate that does not contain surfactants and detergents, which are commonly found in commercial borax products.

His lungs have entered the saccular phase and have started producing a soap - like substance called surfactant, which helps drain the amniotic fluid and replace with air once baby takes those first unassisted breaths outside the womb.

Retaining the moisturizing properties of the coconut oil from which it is derived, Decyl Glucoside is a surfactant that also works to moisturize, smooth, and soften the skin.

Look for body washes with natural surfactants, like those derived from apples or coconuts, which gently cleanse without removing moisture from your skin.»

Particular Paws shampoo does have some «anonymous» ingredients, including «mild surfactant blend,» which is a commonly - used shampoo ingredient for human and pet products.

Most of these products work much like regular shampoo, in which surface acting agents, or surfactants, lift dirt that is carried away by soapsuds.

Incidentally, I have been unable to find out if the models which are producing the GW scenarios include some allowance for the fact that the ocean / atmosphere interface (the boundary layer, so called, an irritating nomenclature as the words already have a technical meaning) was changed drastically from about 1850 onwards by surfactant and oil spill pollution as the petrochemical industry and petrol engine technologies began to hit their stride.

It is known that surface tension decreases with decreasing temperature, the rate of decrease is different in different sources, but it is known that at low temperatures (can be around Tlim of -70 to -100 C), s becomes very low, even for pure water without surfactants, and may become even negative in some extrapolations to the low T, which prevents calculations at these T.

When a massive class - action lawsuit brought the toxic nature of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) to public light, DuPont set their sights on a safer replacement for the surfactant that was a key ingredient in Teflon, that which gives the non-stick to non-stick cookware and other sticky things.

Birth year data was available from 1982/88 to 2001, a period during which neonatal care changed markedly with, for example, the use antenatal corticosteroids and surfactant replacement therapy [99]--[101].