Soaps Floating

Put one-fourth cup of baking soda in the sink. Add one-half cup of vinegar to the baking soda. Is enough carbon dioxide gas made to float soap bubbles ... 

What is the least amount of vinegar that must be mixed with one-and-a-half cups of baking soda to make enough carbon dioxide gas to float soap bubbles ... 

The two main classes of soaps are toilet soap and industrial soap. Toilet soap is usually made from mixtures of tallow and coconut in the ratios 80-90 10-20. The bar soap includes regular and super fatted toilet soaps, deodorant and antimicrobial soaps, floating soaps, and hard water soaps. The super fatted soaps are also made from a mixture of tallow and coconut oil in ratios 50-60 40-50. All soaps practically contain 10 to 30 percent water and also contain perfume that serves to... 

Floating soap. Soap s essential ingredients are fat and an alkaline material. Wood ashes were the original alkali source, but producing large amounts was a problem. Then, in 1789, along came Nicolas Leblanc, the French chemist who introduced a process whereby soda, the necessary ingredient from the wood ashes, was mass-produced from brine. Now soap manufacturers had plenty of soda to mix with the fat in their big kettles. 

This is serendipity, the happy faculty of stumbling across something valuable accidentally. Serendipity has always played a major part in the development of new emd useful things - like floating soap, a nonstick coating for cookware, better br lkes for jetliners, the vulcanization process for rubber, a widely used artificial sweetener and a rat poison that hcirms no other creature. 

Ivory soap was a mistake, too. The first batch made in 1898 when a Procter G unble Co. workmeui went to lunch without remembering to turn off a blending machine. The resulting batch of soap had tiny air bubbles beaten into it when it reached the market, the enthusiastic requests for "more of that floating soap" convinced P G to keep meLking it. Dynamite, puffed wheat and puffed rice cereals, and LSD are traceable to mistakes. 

Floating Soaps,—Attempts have been made to produce tablets of soap that will float upon the surface of water, by inserting cork, or floats, or a metallic plate in such a manner that there is an air space between the metal and the soap. The more usual method is to in-... 

Floating soap, winch is usually white (some are of a cream tint), cannot be recommended as economical, whilst its deficiency in lathering properties, owing to occluded air, is a serious drawback to its... 

Hazardous Decomp. Prods. Irritating, highly toxic gases HMIS Health 2, Flammability 1, Reactivity 0 Norfox Air Floated Soap [Norman, Fox]... 

Norfox Air Floated Soaps wetting control agent, plaster Norfox Air Floated Soaps wetting control agent, plaster joint compds. 

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