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The microbiological availability of soap bacteriostats
Author(s) -
Taber David,
Yackovich Frank,
Brown James
Publication year - 1967
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/bf02908537
Subject(s) - soap , substrate (aquarium) , soap bubble , computer science , subject (documents) , biochemical engineering , world wide web , engineering , mathematics , biology , ecology , geometry
The subject of substantivity as applied to bacteriostats used in soap is reviewed, and the concept of microbiological availability is advanced to describe the interaction of the inherent effectiveness of a bacteriostat with the quantity deposited on a substrate. A method for studying microbiological availability is presented together with data for four soap bacteriostats.