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Wetting Agents

Known as: Agents, Wetting, wetting agent 
A surfactant that renders a surface wettable by water or enhances the spreading of water over the surface.
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2006
2006
Effects of silica nanoparticle addition to the secondary coating of dual-coated optical fibers
2002
2002
Bacterial strike-through of re-usable surgical drapes: the effect of different wetting agents.
Wound contamination and the resultant postoperative infection is a major problem in all forms of surgery. Air contamination… 
1999
1999
Effect of two abrasive systems on resin bonding to laboratory-processed indirect resin composite restorations.
PURPOSE This study compared two methods of surface roughening or preparation, with or without the use of proprietary surface… 
1992
1992
The placebo effect is nothing to sneeze at.
1989
1989
The potential unreliability of indium 111 oxine labeling in studies of endothelial cell kinetics.
Review
1988
Review
1988
Development of Standard Methods for the Collection and Analysis of Precipitation: Trace Metals
Local, state, regional, and national precipitation chemistry networks have been established during the last twenty-five years in… 
1962
1962
Effect of wetting agents on irrigation of water repellent soils
The beneficial effects of using a wetting agent to increase the infiltration rate while irrigating highly water-repellent soils… 
1956
1956
Effects of medium agitation and wetting agents on oxidation of sulphur by Thiobacillus thiooxidans.
Thiobacillus thiooxidans oxidizes elemental sulphur more rapidly in a shaken than in static liquid medium. Various wetting agents… 
1950
1950
Pulmonary toxicity of wetting agents dispensed as aerosols.
IN THE last few years several investigators have employed the so-called wetting agents in various fields pertaining to medicine… 
1941
1941
Studies on the Action of Wetting Agents on Microörganisms
Soaps have been extensively used, often with added alkali, to emulsify or make soluble phenolic compounds of limited solubility… 
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