{"id":1397,"date":"2009-02-08T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T11:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2009-02-08T06:28:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T11:28:43","slug":"but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1397","title":{"rendered":"But, Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/a-dialogue-with-sarah-aged-3-in-which-it-is-shown-that-if-your-dad-is-a-chemistry-professor-asking-\u201cwhy\u201d-can-be-dangerous-4\/\">A Dialog With Sarah \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ask a scientist &#8220;why,&#8221; and they can often go many rounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SARAH: Why?<\/p>\n<p>DAD: Why is soap a surfactant?<\/p>\n<p>SARAH: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>DAD: That is an EXCELLENT question. Soap is a surfactant because it forms water-soluble micelles that trap the otherwise insoluble dirt and oil particles.<\/p>\n<p>SARAH: Why?<\/p>\n<p>DAD: Why does soap form micelles?<\/p>\n<p>SARAH: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>DAD: Soap molecules are long chains with a polar, hydrophilic head and a non-polar, hydrophobic tail. Can you say \u2018hydrophilic\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>SARAH: Aidrofawwic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/\">via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dialog With Sarah \u2026 Ask a scientist &#8220;why,&#8221; and they can often go many rounds. SARAH: Why? DAD: Why is soap a surfactant? SARAH: Yes. DAD: That is an EXCELLENT question. Soap is a surfactant because it forms water-soluble &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}