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Detergents

"Detergents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Purifying or cleansing agents, usually salts of long-chain aliphatic bases or acids, that exert cleansing (oil-dissolving) and antimicrobial effects through a surface action that depends on possessing both hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Detergents" by people in this website by year, and whether "Detergents" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2003
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