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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Nonoxynol
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Nonoxynol
Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Nonoxynol
... > Organic Chemicals > Alcohols > Glycols > Ethylene Glycols > Polyethylene Glycols > Nonoxynol

Preferred term

Nonoxynol  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Nonoxinol
  • Nonoxinols
  • Nonoxynols
  • Nonylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol
  • Nonylphenoxypolyethoxyethanols

Scope note

  • Nonionic surfactant mixtures varying in the number of repeating ethoxy (oxy-1,2-ethanediyl) groups. They are used as detergents, emulsifiers, wetting agents, defoaming agents, etc. Nonoxynol-9, the compound with 9 repeating ethoxy groups, is a spermatocide, formulated primarily as a component of vaginal foams and creams.

History note

  • 1994 (1974)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017137

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