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The basic aim of the book is to give practical help to users of surfactants and those people who make formulations with surfactants. The choice of a costeffective surfactant, although essential, is not easy due to: the bewildering number of surfactants available on the market; insufficient data given by the manufacturers; poorly defined chemical structure/effect relationships. This book attempts to provide some practical help with these problems but also to explain the basic properties of particular types of commercially available surfactants.
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Porter, M.R. (1991). General introduction. In: Handbook of Surfactants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1293-3_1
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