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Effect of Electrolytes on Cation-Active Detergents

Nature volume 158, page 585 (1946)Cite this article

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IT is well known that the addition of divalent metallic ions greatly enhances the surface-active properties of anion-active detergents, and it was suggested by Robinson1 that a similar effect should occur on adding divalent anions to cation-active substances. This was confirmed by Powney and Addison2 for the addition of sulphate ions to dodecyl pyridinium chloride.

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  1. British Launderers' Research Association, The Laboratories, Hill View Gardens, Hendon, N.W.4.

    JOHN A. HILL & C. L. F. HUNTER

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HILL, J., HUNTER, C. Effect of Electrolytes on Cation-Active Detergents. Nature 158, 585 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158585b0

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