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ANIONIC, NONIONIC and CATIONIC.
the test is ……how many of us out there understand these 3 words.
There’s no prize for getting them right, this is a 48 hour test to see what you guys can come up with….who knows you may learn something along the way.
I already know we can go further and go into builders, buffers, enzymes ect ect, but hey…lets keep it simple, please.
“if you want to clean up, you need to know the answers”
Kevin
Kevin,
You been playing with the chemistry set again? And I though Bridie had banned you!! :rotl:
K.
Re: a test
Whilst I know you guys think you know, only Penquin (a pm to me)has the correct answers so far….so
publish what you think for marks out of 10.
Kevin
Re: a test
Do you want the dictionary answer, the appropriate chemical answer or the “relevant to our industry” answer? Or should I just give you them all, IMO of course. 😉 It’s all relative, forgive me please Albert.
To give all a clue, it’s all to do with particle reactions within and to do with detergents and their constituant components that alllow the products to work but I’m guessing that most had already sussed that out.
Another clue = “ionic” (pronounced : i-on-ic)
Kevin, is this not a bit heavy for a Sunday? 😆
And really, if you ever fancy a debate on theoretical or particle physics then I’m your man, but chemistry was never really my field. 😉
K.
Look, it’s about soap powder, the ionics variously react with surficants. Mrs P, who is a biologist and chemist says the theory looks good, but the practicalities are basically a large collection of spherical objects! What is more important is to warm everything up and then beat hell out of them.
Let’s face it, we managed for a thousand years by going down to the river and slapping things against a rock. Not a lot has really changed.
Regards,
Chris.Re: a test
But P, does that get your whites, whiter than white? 😆
Actually you are totally correct, as is Mrs P (obviously ;)) as you need three things to wash essentially, detergent, motion and, arguably, heat. But that’s using a chemical reaction to clean and in particular remove grease, but you’d have to apply the same basic principals to dish as well.
It’s interesting that you mention the old “beat them off a rock” principle as that was the basis of the theory behind Jetsystem and, I suspect, most of the reduction in water usage we see now. If you think about it clothing is no longer agitated suspended in water but more slapped off the drum as it revolves.
So much for any new ideas eh? 😉
K.
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