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Glossary item | 2 July 2018

Biosurfactant

Bioeconomy
Surfactants derived from biomass; whereas surfactants are molecules that consist of one hydrophilic (having strong affinity with water) part and one hydrophobic (repelling water) part (Kjellin & Johansson, 2010) or substances that tends to reduce the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved (Oxford dictionaries).
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Source category: Dictionaries