Laundry chemicals

Use Treatment of chrome yellow and other colors, production of titanous sulfate used as reducing agent or stripper for dyes, laundry chemical. 

Properties Wh. or si. yel. solid sol. in water Toxicology Corrosive irritant to skin, eyes, and mucous membranes TSCA listed Precaution DOT Corrosive Hazardous Decomp. Prods. Heated to decomp., emits toxic fumes of SOx Uses Treatment of chrome yellow and other colors prod, of titanous sulfate used as reducing agent or stripper for dyes, laundry chemical as mordant in dyeing Manuf./Distrib. Noah http //www.noahtech.com... 

Liquid Fabric Softeners. The principal functions of fabric softeners are to minimize the problem of static electricity and to keep fabrics soft (see Antistatic agents). In these laundry additives, the fragrance must reinforce the sense of softness that is the desired result of their use. Most fabric softeners have a pH of about 3.5, which limits the materials that can be used in the fragrances. For example, acetals cannot be used because they break down and cause malodor problems in addition, there is the likelihood of discoloration from Schiff bases, oakmoss extracts, and some specialty chemicals. Testing of fragrance materials in product bases should take place under accelerated aging conditions (eg, 40°C in plastic bottles) to check for odor stabiUty and discoloration. 

About 20,000 tons of ultramarines are produced worldwide. The largest manufacturers are Dainichi Seika (Japan), Nubiola (Spain), and Reckitts Colours International (RCI) based in Hull (U.K.), where Isaac Reckitt first began making laundry blue in the 1850s. HoUiday Chemical Hoi dings (HCH of Huddersfield, U.K.) purchased RCI in 1994 (43). 

Historically, these sulfonates have been difficult to produce in good quaUty and to formulate into laundry powders because of thermal and hydrolytic stabihty problems. Used basically as an anionic, oleochemically sourced replacement for LAS, FAE sulfonate benefits include good detergency at low concentration, low environmental load, and good supply of high quaUty material (71). To avoid possible thermal stabihty problems, these sulfonates have found apphcation in Hquid products. They are used in at least one U.S. dishwashing Hquid, and the cocoyl derivative, Alpha-Step MC48, is marketed by Stepan Chemical Company. 

High yields of NaOCl are obtained electrolyticaHy by oxidation of CT at dimensionally stable anodes (219). Sodium hypochlorite is prepared using small diaphragmless or membrane cells, with a capacity of 1—150 kg/d of equivalent CI2, which produce a dilute hypochlorite solution of 1—3 and 5—6 g/L from seawater and brine, respectively (see Chemicals from brine). They are employed in sewage and wastewater treatment and in commercial laundries, large swimming pools, and aboard ships. 

Because of its functionaUty and environmental acceptabiUty, citric acid and its salts (primarily sodium and potassium) are used in many industrial appbcations for cbelation, buffering, pH adjustment, and derivatization. These uses include laundry detergents, shampoos, cosmetics, enhanced oil recovery, and chemical cleaning. 

Health and Safety Factors As a class, surfactants and detergent products are among the most widely used chemical compositions. Almost everyone is exposed to these products on a daily basis ia situatioas that range from ingestion of food-grade emulsifiers to intimate coatact of skin and eyes with personal-care and laundry products. Safety is therefore a matter of great importance (132,133). Ranges of surfactant LD q values are shown ia Table 2. 

NafXll — 2500(X) tpa (on a dry basis) u.sed mainly for household liquid bleach, laundries, disinfection of swimming pools, municipal water supplies and sewage, and the industrial manufacture of N2H4 and organic chemicals. 

Dermal exposure to methyl parathion is not likely to be a health concern to the general population, with the possible exception of individuals in the immediate vicinity of a field during application of the pesticide. Dermal exposure, however, is a major source of exposure for workers directly involved in the manufacture, application, and cleanup of the chemical, and for field workers. Laundry workers cleaning the clothing of such workers may also be exposed. 

Many laundry and dish detergents as well as shampoos are made from chemicals based on ethylene oxide. 

Cutinase is a hydrolytic enzyme that degrades cutin, the cuticular polymer of higher plants [4], Unlike the oflier lipolytic enzymes, such lipases and esterases, cutinase does not require interfacial activation for substrate binding and activity. Cutinases have been largely exploited for esterification and transesterification in chemical synthesis [5] and have also been applied in laundry or dishwashing detergent [6]. 

The world as we know it could not function without acids and bases. These chemical compounds are used extensively, from the chemical laboratory to the manufacturing industry. They are necessary for the proper functioning of the human body and for the health of the environment, too. Acids taste sour, break down metals, and react with bases. Without acids, soft drinks, lemonade, and tomato sauce would not taste the same way. Bases taste bitter, feel slippery, and react with acids. Without bases, cakes would be hard and flat, and laundry detergent would not clean. Both acids and bases can change certain vegetable substances a variety of different colors, and they can burn through human skin if not handled properly. Without acids and bases, we would not have dynamite, some heart medications, and fertilizers. On the other hand, without acids, we would not have damaging acid rain. And... 

Evolution did not use this element, only in certain plants is it important as a trace element. The element became well-known because of heat-resistant borosilicate glasses. Boranes are chemically interesting as B-H bonds react very specifically. Perborates are used in laundry detergents (Persil). The hardness of cubic boron nitride approaches that of diamond. Amorphous (brown) boron burns very quickly and gives off much heat and is therefore used in solid-propellant rockets and in igniters in airbags. 

Water softener manufacturers remind us of the many undesirable effects produced by hard water. Besides enhancing the likelihood of harmful scale deposits in plumbing, water heaters, and dishwashers, hard water also has been associated with bathtub scum, deposits on laundry, scale on glasses and dishes, scratchy skin, and unmanageable hair. A simple chemical process explains the origin of hard water. Additional chemical reactions provide an explanation for the scum and deposits that readily form when soap and hard water combine. 

Whiter whites Brighter brights You ve heard such claims made by many manufacturers of laundry detergents. The chemical structure of the additives called optical brighteners provides the essential factors that make these superior detergents possible. 

Evaluation in the microprocessor may be carried out conventionally, in accordance with fuzzy logic algorithms or even on the basis of so called neural networks. To what extent such terms can be advertised to the end user as a type of quality criterion remains to be seen. For consumers these differences are largely of no consequence as they always receive clean, hygienic, problem-free laundry for which only the absolutely essential quantities of the required resources of water, energy and chemicals have been used. 

Chemical bleaching is used to remove colored non-washable soils and stains adhering to fibers and is accomplished by oxidative or reductive decomposition of chromophoric systems. Only oxidative bleaches are used in laundry products to a great extent. 

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