What are soaps and detergents and micelles?
Answers
Answer:
Soap is an anionic surfactant and these are water soluble sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids and these are made from fats and oils. Other anionic as well as nonionic surfactants are main ingredients in detergents
Detergents are cleansing agents possessing ammonium or sulphonate salts of long chain carboxylic acids that are used to clean clothes in hard water.
Micelle, in physical chemistry, a loosely bound aggregation of several tens or hundreds of atoms, ions (electrically charged atoms), or molecules, forming a colloidal particle—i.e., one of a number of ultramicroscopic particles dispersed through some continuous medium
Explanation:
micelles are those which are formed due cleaning a cloth in which the hydrophobhic end attract towards oil or grease or any other dirty part of cloth
and hydrophillic part attract towards water and many of these type micelles form due to same charge of hydrophillic end repel each other...
