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The main function or job of a surfactant is to reduce surface tension. This process is used on liquids while it dissolves.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 11y agoA surface-active agent 'surfactant' usually cleans something. ie -soap is a surfactant.
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What is the name of a mixture of oil and water?
It would be called a "disaster" if we are talking about a mixture of oil and water in the crankcase of your engine. An emulsion if you are looking for a definition. _______________ Water and oil do not always form an emulsion. You can try adding oil to a glass of water or the other way round. Emulsions will only form when the mixture is shaken vigorously and soap (surfactant) is present.
What is the difference among wheezing ronchi stridor and crackle sounds?
Breathsound are divided into Vesicular breath sounds(Normal) and Adventitious breath sounds (abnormal). Adventitious breath sounds are divided in Continuos lung sound(>80 ms) and Discontinuos lung sounds(<20 ms). Continuos lung sounds consist of Wheeze and Rhonchi. Wheeze is high pitched musical sounds especially produced in the setting of Bronchospasm ,mucosal edema or excessive secretions. Rhonchi is lowpitched sonorous sound and may have gurgling quality.they originate in larger airways when there is excessive secretions,abnormal airway collapsibility due to repetitive rupture of surfactant film covering alveoli. Rhonchi frequently clear after cough post tussive clearing. Always ask patient to turn aside and cough if u hear abnormal breath sounds. Now coming to discontinuos sound those are Crackles or rales Coarse >10 ms and fine crackles <10 ms. Fine crackles are soft and high piched sounds,crisp in nature,they are formed by explosive opening of small airways, (terminal bronchioles to alveoli) commonly seen in acute pulmonary edema and Interstial lung disease(post tussive rale they donot clear infact become more afer coughing), Coarse crepts are caused by air bubbling through fluid they are loud and low pitched sounds produced in Pneumonia,Obstructive lung disease and chronic pulmonary edema.
What do surfactant do?
A surface-active agent 'surfactant' usually cleans something. ie -soap is a surfactant.
Surfactant that cover the respiratory membranes?
Surfactant is pleural fluid.
What is the interfacial properties of surfactant solution?
What is the interfacial properties of surfactant solution?
What do Type 2 alveolar cells secrete?
secrete surfactant
How effective is surfactant therapy?
Normally surfactant replacement therapy keeps the infant alive until the lungs start producing their own surfactant.
Which surfactant lacks in a new born baby?
I have never heard the surfactant called anything specific. Full term babies usually have surfactant (a mixture of lipids (fats) and proteins). Premature babies many times do not have enough surfactant to keep the alveoli of their lungs open, so artificial surfactant is put into the trachea, sometimes more than once.
Why does oil miscible in solution of surf and water?
Presumably you mean surfactant and water? A classic surfactant molecule has a polar, hydrophilic end and a non-polar hydrocarbon liophilic end. With enough of a suitable surfactant, oil droplets will form with the liophilic part of surfactant molecules dissolved in the droplets and water molecules attached to the hydrophilic part of the surfactant. The oil disperses in the water.
When do fetuses begin to produce surfactant?
Fetuses begin to produce surfactant between weeks 24 and 28.
What is coconut diethanolamide?
surfactant
Is sorbitol a surfactant?
Yes it is!
What is the difference between mucus surfactant and pleural fluid?
Surfactant is when your mum produces something bad into the mouth of your daddy
Breathing properly requires the presence of what compound that affects surface tension of alveoli in the lungs?
The correct answer is Surfactant
