Plural of surfactant

Forms of surfactant

Surfactants in a sentence

• Khorana added that this is especially true of cleansers that feature surfactants like sodium lauryl sulfate, as this class of ingredients can cause “dryness, irritation and eczema.”2023 December 6, Jessica DeFino, “Too Many Products Can Stress Out Your Skin. Here’s How to Scale Back.”, in The New York Times
• Column studies have demonstrated the advantage of using misable solvents over surfactants.1995, Proceedings, SPE/EPA Exploration & Production Environmental Conference. From the entry misable
• Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.2009 February 26, Julie Scelfo, “When It Comes to Detergents, What’s the Least Irresponsible Choice?”, in The New York Times. From the entry phosphate
• Finally, the critical aggregation concentration (CAC) of the surfactants demonstrates to be a good predictor of foamability and foam stability for these small molecule surfactants.2015, Seth Heerschap, John N. Marafino, Kristin McKenna, Kevin L. Caran, Klebert Feitosa, “Foams Stabilized by Tricationic Amphiphilic…. From the entry foamability
• But all those colorful bottles and boxes on the store shelves may contain a mad scientist's laboratoryful of other chemicals besides surfactants.2009, Robert Wolke, What Einstein Told His Barber. From the entry laboratoryful

Meaning of surfactant

1. noun A surface-active agent, or wetting agent, capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid; typically organic compounds having a hydrophilic “head” and a hydrophobic “tail”.
2. noun A lipoprotein in the tissues of the lung that reduces surface tension and permits more efficient gas transport.

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Questions about the plural of surfactant

What is the plural of surfactant?

The plural of surfactant is surfactants.

Is surfactant countable?

Surfactant is a countable noun.