{"id":38668,"date":"2020-01-03T23:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38668"},"modified":"2020-01-03T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:01:07","slug":"chemistry-soap-vs-detergent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-soap-vs-detergent\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry: soap vs detergent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about soap and detergent: the tutor begins&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\nI recall hearing, as a kid, a product&#8217;s being &#8220;real soap.&#8221; What is a real soap, vs a detergent?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMy research tells me this: Soap is made from oil produced during the life of an organism, such as lard or vegetable oil. Detergent, on the other hand, is typically made from petroleum.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause of their different backbones, the charged end of the soap molecule is a carboxylate group, while a detergent molecule may have a sulfo or other group instead.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detergentsandsoaps.com\/soaps-detergents.html\">detergentsandsoaps.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/chebi\/searchId.do?chebiId=29922\">ebi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/soap\">britannica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chem.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Ancillary_Materials\/Reference\/Organic_Chemistry_Glossary\/Carboxylate_Ion\">chem.libretexts.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about soap and detergent: the tutor begins&#8230; I recall hearing, as a kid, a product&#8217;s being &#8220;real soap.&#8221; What is a real soap, vs a detergent? My research tells me this: Soap is made from oil produced during the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-soap-vs-detergent\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry: soap vs detergent<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38671,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668\/revisions\/38671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}