Talk:Didecyldimethylammonium chloride

I'd like to be able to edit this article to mention that DDAC is used in swimming pool algaecide treatments, but going to the store and photographic the ingredients list seems a bit too original-research-ey. It would be nice to have this home/garden chemical documented as such, rather than the catchall "biocide" description. For future edits, http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/footprint/en/Reports/988.htm at least mentions the use as algaecide, if not its use in retail pool treatment products. Bernd Jendrissek (talk) 21:46, 31 January 2012 (UTC) Viricida — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.222.119.94 (talk) 21:47, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Surfactant
Basically, this is an ordinary surfactant, like in industrial-strength washing up agent. Actually, the carbonate version can be found in a resin/oil washing agent used in the printing industry.

Therefore I think that we should have disinfectants sorted into mechanically acting, such as cationic surfactants such as this one, and then other biocidal agents.

Just my two cents... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.64.6.161 (talk) 18:04, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

"Well, that escalated quickly"
The original researcher who had problems with low fertility in mice said in a BBC interview that they noticed a LOWER fertility in lab mice, as they were breeding the mice as a product and they produced LESS mice, but the description here puts is as a total loss of fertility, which was not the case. Also, the criticism of that study is out of place: the mice were coming into direct contact with the disinfectant by walking in the cleaned cages, all the time, which is something else than the typical human use.

Next, the finding of the research was that the disinfectant can integrate itself in the cellular membranes, and thus stay in the higher organism for a very long period of time, which means that a repeated contact with a small mammal, like a mouse, will lead to results such as impaired fertility, etc.

I can recommend the original BBC article, but finding it with the BBC search function will be impossible.