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What is the main advantage of detergents over soaps?
What is the main advantage of detergents over soaps?
- They are biodegradable
- They are sodium or potassium salts of long chain fatty acids
- Their efficiency is unaffected in hard water (correct)
- Their ionic part is —COO–Na+
What is the ionic part of soap?
What is the ionic part of soap?
- —OSO3-Na+
- —COO–K+
- —COO–Na+ (correct)
- —OSO3-K+
What is the example given for detergent?
What is the example given for detergent?
- CH3—(CH2)11—C6H4—SO3Na (correct)
- RCOO–Na+
- CH3—(CH2)11—C6H4—OSO3-Na+
- CH3—(CH2)11—C6H4—COO–Na+
What causes hardness in water?
What causes hardness in water?
What is the ionic part of detergent?
What is the ionic part of detergent?
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