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Wetting and Detergent Action

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THE symposium on the “Scientific and Technical Aspects of Wetting and Detergency”, held at the Imperial College of Science on February 19-20 under the auspices of the British Section of the International Society of Leather Trades Chemists, brought together a large company of scientific and technical workers for the discussion of nearly twenty interesting papers, which dealt with many of the known important points in these two problems, and suggested new points of view likely to prove important in future research.

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A., N. Wetting and Detergent Action. Nature 139, 423–424 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139423a0

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