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Surfactants are organic compounds, also termed as ‘surface active agents’. Surfactants contain at least one lyophilic (solvent-loving) and at least one lyophobic (solvent-fearing) group in the molecule. In usual circumstances, the solvent is water and the terms hydrophobic and hydrophilic are used for solvent-fearing and solvent-loving groups, respectively.
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Sagir, M., Mushtaq, M., Tahir, M.S., Tahir, M.B., Shaik, A.R. (2020). Surfactants. In: Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18785-9_1
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