Thursday, July 30, 2009

Explaining about some detergents:
SOAPS

Soaps are water-soluble sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids. Soaps,made of the fat and other oils .
First let's examine the composition of fats, oils and alkalis; then we'll review the process of makin soap.Fats and Oils all of the the fats and oils used in soap making have the animal or plant sources. Each fat or oil is made up of a distinctive mixture of several different triglycerides. In a triglyceride ,three fatty acid molecules get attached to the one molecule of glycerine. There are many types of triglycerides; each type consists of on the combination of fatty acids to the glycerine. Fatty acids are the components of fats and oils that we use them to make all kinds of the soaps . They are composed of two parts: A carboxylic acid group consisting of one hydrogen (H) atom, two oxygen (O) atoms, and one carbon (C) atom, plus a hydrocarbon chain attached to the carboxylic acid group. Generally, it is made up of a long straight chain of carbon (C) atoms each carrying two hydrogen (H) atoms.

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