What about another liquid? Is there a “perfect” cleaner, something that spreads and penetrates like nothing else?

Very interested in the answer.

  • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    So could we produce a surface tension-free water?

    Homie dats a gas. Or supercritical fluid, which actually is indeed used for “washing” (SC CO2 is used to decaffeinate coffee). However, like others said, surface tension /= cleaning ability. Part of what soap does is increase the effective solubility of things that are not normally soluble.