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THE description of the properties of aqueous detergent solutions in terms of a chemical equilibrium between monomers and micelles has proved very fruitful. Thermodynamic as well as transport behaviour has been analysed from this point of view. The detergents most extensively investigated in the past are the sodium alkyl sulphates, and for these a satisfactory explanation may be given of critical micelle concentrations (c.m.c.), micellar weights, and the influence of temperature, electrolyte concentration and the like, on these quantities.
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MIJNLIEFF, P., DITMARSCH, R. Rate of Micelle Formation of Sodium Alkyl Sulphates in Water. Nature 208, 889–891 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208889b0
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