tgardner01234
May 11, 2011, 02:00 PM
My entirely random interest came from washing up and noticing that when you put sometimes only the smallest drop of washing up liquid (lets say, Fairy Liquid washing up gel/liquid) and put water on it it foams up to an immensely large degree and continues to foam for a very long time. When you try to rinse the foam out it takes forever - this interested me.
The question I wondered was is ----- how much foam is/can be produced from, lets say, 1 mole of washing up liquid.
After looking up the contents it seems the foaming ingredient is Sodium Laureth Sulphate/Sulfate, and I imagine we would have to write an equation for the reaction between SLS and whatever makes it foam (water and/or oxygen I guess) forming whatever it is exactly that foam is.. I imagine an oxide of SLS or.. I really don't know. Once we do that I imagine (a lot of imagining) that we can calculate a molar relationship between the foam and the SLS.
I would even appreciate just an idea of what you imagine could be theorised to calculate this. It just... came into my mind and massively puzzles and interests me now.
any ideas and help would be hugely appreciated.
(I don't know if all my 'i imagine' information is correct, so please, if in your answer you want to use different information PLEASE do)
All the best - thanks in advance
The question I wondered was is ----- how much foam is/can be produced from, lets say, 1 mole of washing up liquid.
After looking up the contents it seems the foaming ingredient is Sodium Laureth Sulphate/Sulfate, and I imagine we would have to write an equation for the reaction between SLS and whatever makes it foam (water and/or oxygen I guess) forming whatever it is exactly that foam is.. I imagine an oxide of SLS or.. I really don't know. Once we do that I imagine (a lot of imagining) that we can calculate a molar relationship between the foam and the SLS.
I would even appreciate just an idea of what you imagine could be theorised to calculate this. It just... came into my mind and massively puzzles and interests me now.
any ideas and help would be hugely appreciated.
(I don't know if all my 'i imagine' information is correct, so please, if in your answer you want to use different information PLEASE do)
All the best - thanks in advance