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People use variety of methods to wash clothes usually after adding the soap. they beat the clothes on a stone or beat it with a paddle, scrub with a brush or the mixture is agitated in a washing machine. why agitation is necessary to get clean clothes clothes?

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The cleansing action of soaps and detergents follows

the same principle soaps and detergents, consist of a large hydrocarbon tail with a negatively charged head. Hydrocarbon tail attaches itself to oily dirt. When water is agitated, the oily dirt tends to lift off from the dirty surface and dissociates into fragments. The solution now contains small globules of oil surrounded by detergent molecules. The negatively charged heads present in water prevent the small globules from coming together and form aggregates. Thus, the oily dirt is removed from the object. Therefore, agitation is necessary to get clean clothes.
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