surface-active agent

What does surface-active agent mean?

surface-active agent means "a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved".

What is another word for surface-active agent?

Close synonyms include wetting agent, wetter, surfactant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surface-active agent a common word?

surface-active agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for surface-active agent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.