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Soaps and detergent are salts of higher carboxylic acids and sulphonic acids respectively. Soaps get ionised and forms stable negatively charged miscelles as follows:
` RCOONa hArr RCOO^(-) + Na^(+)`
Detergent also get ionised and forms negatively charged micelles as :
` RNH_2 +HCI hArr RNH_3 Cl^(-)`
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