Sodium propanoate and sodium acetate (NaC2H3O2) are not good soaps because they do not have a long enough hydrocarbon portion with which to bond to the "dirt". This question hinges on the fact that most dirt is relatively nonpolar...
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I'm doing a lab where we are preparing soap from triglycerides (lard) and sodium hydroxide (in water and ethanol). This gives carboxylic acid salts (soap) and glycerol. I'm wondering: Why are sodium acetate and sodium propanoate poor soaps?
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I'm doing a lab where we are preparing soap from triglycerides (lard) and sodium hydroxide (in water and ethanol). This gives carboxylic acid salts (soap) and glycerol. I'm wondering: Why are sodium acetate and sodium propanoate poor soaps?
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"Hard" water is known as water from which an insoluble soap precipitates when a soluble sodium soap is added. Generally, this precipitate includes a mixture of calcium and magnesium soaps. As a result "hardness" often is considered to mean the total concentration of calcium ... (7) 0.05% sodium acetate-10 out of 10 mushed...
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Specific examples of the water-soluble salts are lithium fluoride, lithium chloride, sodium bisulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium hydrogen phosphate, ammonium chloride, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, sodium carbonate, sodium acetate, sodium propionate, etc.
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But the salts are stated to be poor detergents alone incomparison with ordinary .... sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate, sodium acetate, sodium propionate and the like. ..... (2) Sodium soap of lactone made by condensing C8 --C14 olefins, ...
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Soaps have many other uses. ... Humans make a poor contrast with cats, who keep themselves generally spotless and odorless without assistance. To clean their fur, cats roll in clay dust or other suitable powder, ... Until quite recently, all soap was a soluble sodium or potassium salt of a long-chain hydrocarbon (fatty) acid,
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The sodium salt of benzoic acid, sodium benzoate fulfils an antibacterial and antifungal role, and to disguise taste, as of poor-quality food; orange diet soft drinks contain a high amount of it, up to 25mg per 250ml; ... (i) Sodium Acetate - The sodium salt of acetic acid, ... Sodium propionate is the sodium salt of propionic acid,
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Synergistic effect is noted for example by the use, as the adjuvant, of alkali metal salts of sub¬ stantially saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acids, such as sodium acetate, potassium acetate, sodium propionate, potassium propionate, sodium hexanoate, sodiun octanoate, ... Also commercially available soaps, such as IVORY...
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