Surfactants are extremely important in the detergents, toiletries, cosmetics, textiles and paint industries. They are made up of two parts - a lipophilic part which attracts the grease and a hydrophillic part which ensures that the whole molecule is soluble in water so the grease is washed away

Instrumental, especially spectrometric methods are widely used in analytical laboratories for identification and quantitative determination of complex organic systems. The author has shown this in earlier works for polymeric materials of all kind. In this book he describes the application of vibrational (FTIR, UV, Raman) and mass spectrometries and of other instrumental techniques for identification and structure elucidation of plastics additives, e.g., antioxidants, stabilisers, plasticisers, pigments, rubber chemicals. The state of the art is compressed in numerous tables and figures; these...