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Organic acids as builders in linear alkylbenzene sulfonate detergent formulations
Author(s) -
Wilham C. A.,
Mehltretter C. L.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02638518
Subject(s) - linear alkylbenzene , chemistry , sulfonate , sodium , citric acid , sodium citrate , sugar , chromatography , organic chemistry , pulmonary surfactant , biochemistry , medicine , pathology
Abstract Sodium salts of citric, glycolic, diglycolic and three sugar acids, directly derived from D‐glucose, were evaluated as builders in a formulation for a linear alkylbenzene sulfonate detergent. Only sodium citrate and diglycolate were at least 60% as effective as sodium tripolyphosphate in building action in hard water. Detergency appeared to be related to calcium sequestration by the salts at pH 10.