Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.
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Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.
Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.
In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.
Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.
I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!
I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years.
The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.