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Surface-Active Agents

"Surface-Active Agents" 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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Agents that modify interfacial tension of water; usually substances that have one lipophilic and one hydrophilic group in the molecule; includes soaps, detergents, emulsifiers, dispersing and wetting agents, and several groups of antiseptics.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Surface-Active Agents" by people in this website by year, and whether "Surface-Active Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 42 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2004
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