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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Octoxynol
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Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Octoxynol
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Preferred term

Octoxynol  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Octoxinol
  • Octoxinols
  • Octoxynols
  • Octylphenoxy Polyethoxyethanol
  • Octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanols
  • Polyethoxyethanol, Octylphenoxy

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. Octoxynol-9, the compound with 9 repeating ethoxy groups, is a spermatocide.

History note

  • 94; was OCTOXYNOL (NM) 1974-93

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017830

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