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How does the branching of hydrocarbon chain of synthetic detergents affect their biodegradability?

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Smaller the branching, larger the biodegradability of a detergent, i.e. detergents with long straight chains of hydrocarbon are more easily degraded than those having branched hydrocarbon chains.
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