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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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      CHEBI ontology 19915
        role 19885
          chemical role 19492
            emulsifier 7546
              surfactant 7537
                1,2-dihexadecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine 2
                1,2-dihexanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine 0
                2-butyloctyl hydrogen sulfate 0
                2-ethylhexyl sulfate 0
                2-oxooctanoic acid 0
                4-octylphenol + 105
                4-undecylbenzenesulfonic acid 0
                amphiphile + 42
                benzalkonium chloride 251
                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 + 3663
                diisopropanolamine 0
                dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide 0
                lauramidopropyl betaine + 0
                nonionic surfactant + 36
                perfluorobutanesulfonic acid 74
                perfluorononanoic acid 1602
                perfluorooctanoic acid 4845
                quaternium-52 0
                sodium 2-butyloctyl sulfate 0
                surfactin 27
                surfactin A + 27
                surfactin B + 27
                surfactin C + 27
                surfactin D + 27
                triethanolamine 3
                triethanolamine hydrochloride 0
                tyloxapol 18
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