ADJECTIVE
- capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid; used especially of detergents
How To Use surface-active In A Sentence
- Fortunately, beer contains surface-active proteins left over from the malted barley and wheat used in the brewing process.
- Upon separation, the surfactants lose all surface-active behavior.
- The method might also prove highly valuable for the investigation of surface-active substances other than pulmonary surfactant.
- Such specific interactions may lead to formation of highly surface-active lipid-protein complexes as well as sorting of lipids at the lung air-water interface.
- An important case of adsorption on liquid surfaces is that of surface-active or surfactant molecules at the water-air or water-oil interface.
- This will then allow observing directly the structure-function relationship of pulmonary surfactant and any other surface-active substance.
- If surface tension does contribute significantly, surface-active agents designed to safely and favorably modulate surface tension might be used to increase recoil in emphysema.
- Our isotherm results demonstrate that P188 is a highly surface-active copolymer.
- To weaken the surface of the emulsion droplets and reduce stability, extra emulsifiers such as mono- and diglycerides (small molecule surface-active agents) are added to the emulsion.
- Normal pulmonary function requires the presence of a surface-active material at the air/liquid interface of the alveolar hypophase.
