Patent ID: 6103799
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: A01N,B01F,C09D

Abstract:
In a method for applying a water-based composition to a surface, the composition containing an inorganic compound which is a mineral ore or a pigment or an organic compound which is a pigment, a polymerizable monomer, an oligomeric resin, a polymeric resin, a detergent, a herbicide, a pesticide, or a plant growth modifying agent and an effective amount of a surfactant for reducing the dynamic surface tension and the foaming of the composition, the improvement which comprises employing as the surfactant an alkylated diamine of the structure ##STR9## where R and R' are independently C5 to C8 alkyl, and G is a C2-C6 linear or cyclic alkylene group which may contain C1-C4 alkyl substituents.