abstract |
A composition affording satisfactory performance in commercial glassware-cleaning equipment, operating with room-temperature water, is obtained with a composition containing not only a satisfactory proportion of caustic but also a very low-foaming nonionic surfactant and, as a solubilizer for such surfactant, a cycloaliphatic C21 dicarboxylic acid or one of its alkali-metal or ammonium salts. |