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ProfessorGAC

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25. And, Now For The Bad News

Reply to MissB (Reply #20)

Sat Nov 13, 2021, 01:05 PM

Nov 2021

Even powders are not 100% active ingredients.
One teaspoon in a gallon is unlikely to achieve the Critical Micelle Concentration (CMC), meaning you're probably just making bubbles, not an effective surfactant system.
Below the CMC, we don't form the micelles needed to effectively trap (suspend) soils, so we would only get 50% of them picked up, with the other 50% just uniformly spread out on the surface.
I'd add more like a tablespoon, if I were you.

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