Cleaning Agents

By Louis A. Bloomfield

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Professor of Physics, University of Virginia
Author of How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life

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This article was originally published with the title “Cleaning Agents” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 282 No. 4 (April 2000)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican042000-X6uwJeOUXyYl4pZ3ydCf8

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