What is surface tension and why would you want to lower it by using surfactants?
In: Chemistry
Premature babies don’t make enough surfactant for their lungs, so the alveoli (the little air air sacs in the lungs responsible for gas exchange) stick together due to surface tension. Health care providers order a medicine/surfactant to break the surface tension so the alveoli can open up and work as they are meant to. Science is rad.
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