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Micelle Technology – The Science
What is Micelle Technology?
The surfactants used by Safe Bio Cleaning consist of long molecules with two very different types of ends. One end likes water, and is called hydrophilic, the other end likes oil and dislikes water, and is called hydrophobic. When these surfactants are placed in water, the hydrophobic ends attract each other, and repel water, and arrange themselves into spherical structure with the hydrophobic ends on the outer surface of the sphere. This sphere is called a micelle.
Figure “A” below is a highly schematic illustration of the manner in which the colloid particles called micelles perform in reducing surface tension of water in a very dilute solution. Each micelle is about one ten-millionth of centimeter (0.000,000,01 cm) in size. Although the physical action is electrical in nature, it is perhaps more readily visualized with the rounded ends as “hydrophollic” or having an affinity to water. The rectangular ends may be regarded as “hydrophobic” or being antagonised to water.
Figure A - micelle technology
It has been demonstrated that substances such as petroleum compounds, waxes, the more complex alcohols, oil soluble dyes and other substances, which are insoluble in dilute detergent solutions will dissolve in solutions that contain these colloid particles called micelles.
In laboratory tests the dyne/centimeter surface tension of tap water had been halved by the adding of as little as 1/3250th part of SC-1000™ allows us to constitute so many solutions from one product that can have the properties of a soap, a detergent, a solvent or other cleaner, and yet be none of these in itself, and to do so with so nearly a perfect safety factor.
Simply put, the Safe Bio Cleaning products are designed to enable separation of oils, waters and soils at a tiny molecular level, thus creating world class cleaning results without the use of harmful chemicals and using the power of nature to actually achieve the results that you need.