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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:surfactant
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Accession:CHEBI:35195 term browser browse the term
Definition:A substance which lowers the surface tension of the medium in which it is dissolved, and/or the interfacial tension with other phases, and, accordingly, is positively adsorbed at the liquid/vapour and/or at other interfaces.
Synonyms:related_synonym: surface active agent;   surfactants



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    role 0
      chemical role 0
        emulsifier 0
          surfactant 0
            1,2-dihexadecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine 0
            1,2-dihexanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine 0
            2-butyloctyl hydrogen sulfate 0
            2-ethylhexyl sulfate 0
            2-oxooctanoic acid 0
            4-octylphenol + 0
            4-undecylbenzenesulfonic acid 0
            amphiphile + 0
            benzalkonium chloride 0
            benzododecinium bromide 0
            benzododecinium chloride 0
            bolaamphiphile + 0
            cetylpyridinium bromide 0
            cetylpyridinium chloride + 0
            cetyltrimethylammonium bromide 0
            cetyltrimethylammonium chloride 0
            cocamidopropyl betaine 0
            decyltrimethylammonium bromide 0
            detergent + 0
            diisopropanolamine 0
            dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide 0
            lauramidopropyl betaine + 0
            nonionic surfactant + 0
            perfluorobutanesulfonic acid 0
            perfluorononanoic acid 0
            perfluorooctanoic acid 0
            quaternium-52 0
            sodium 2-butyloctyl sulfate 0
            surfactin 0
            surfactin A + 0
            surfactin B + 0
            surfactin C + 0
            surfactin D + 0
            triethanolamine 0
            triethanolamine hydrochloride 0
            tyloxapol 0
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