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A detergent is a chemical compound that cleans. By this definition soap cleans things, and so can be considered a detergent. However,
chemists generally make a distinction between soaps and detergents, since soaps are salts of carboxylic acids, and detergents are
sulphate or sulphonate salts.
We use the term detergent in place of synthetic detergent although 'detergent'
is a word used to describe something that displays detergency, or cleaning power.
The main resources used for this project are listed as follows with gratitude.