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Surfactants, or wetting agents, are chemicals that are used in detergents. These chemicals interfere with hydrogen bonding between water molecules to allow water to more easily penetrate the small spaces

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Surfactants, or wetting agents, are chemicals that are used in detergents. These chemicals interfere with hydrogen bonding between water molecules to allow water to more easily penetrate the small spaces between the fibers in cloth.

If an accident released these substances into a pond, what danger would they most likely pose to living things in the pond?

A)The water in the pond would warm and cool more easily.

B)Plants on the bottom of the lake would die because ice would sink.

C)Insects would have trouble walking on the water.

D)The water would be able to dissolve fewer nutrients.

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