{"id":848,"date":"2019-07-12T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cleanandhappynest.org\/wpd\/?p=848"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:05:00","slug":"fun-and-games-with-surfactants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/fun-and-games-with-surfactants\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun and Games with Surfactants!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In cleaning, surfactants \u2013 short for surface active agents \u2013 are a group of chemicals that change how water behaves, so that we can clean more effectively and efficiently. Surfactants reduce water\u2019s surface tension, meaning that droplets won\u2019t simply bead up on countertops, clothes, and dishes, but will spread out to wet the entire surface of what we\u2019re trying to clean.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7-ie4uWX04\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Get the Dirt game on the home page of <a href=\"http:\/\/explorationclean.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExplorationClean<\/a> shows how different surfactants target different types of grime. What can we say? It\u2019s pretty darn cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleaninginstitute.org\/understanding-products\/science-soap\/chemistry-cleaning\">Chemistry of Cleaning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleaninginstitute.org\/understanding-products\/about-cleaning-product-ingredients\">About Cleaning Product Ingredients<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In cleaning, surfactants \u2013 short for surface active agents \u2013 are a group of chemicals that change how water behaves, so that we can clean more effectively and efficiently. Surfactants reduce water\u2019s surface tension, meaning that droplets won\u2019t simply bead up on countertops, clothes, and dishes, but will spread out to wet the entire surface of what we\u2019re trying to clean. The Get the Dirt game on the home page of ExplorationClean shows how different surfactants target different types of grime. What can we say? It\u2019s pretty darn cool. Learn More: Chemistry of Cleaning About Cleaning Product Ingredients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[760],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","tag-ingredient-communication","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleaningiscaring.org\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}