| abstract |
This invention provides water-based compositions, particularly coating,nink, fountain solution, adhesive, agricultural and electronics cleaning compositions,nmanifesting reduced equilibrium surface tension by the incorporation of a surface tensionnreducing amount of an N-alkylimide of tartaric acid and/or an N-alkylimide of malic acidnof the following structures, respectively:n nwhere R 1 is a C5 to C10 alkyl group. |