Tom Veatch wrote in :

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:56:25 GMT, Stormport wrote:

...Whereas the chained hydrocarbon barriers also provide lubrication,
they may be permeable to oxygen. Corrosion. Soap being a modified
chained hydrocarbon will give lubrication and the amphipathic charged
end or electronegative end may become hydrated and the combined
electronegativity provides a second barrier to Oxygen diffusion with a
sort of negative Van der Waals force. ...

Now, for all the non-chemists in the audience, "Say what?"

Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
USA

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. DAMHIKT!


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