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The way a contour roller mower should be designed
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attributes helps to explain how a product can improve infiltration and retention at the same time. You can likely also imagine how, if you wanted a drier surface, you may build a wetting agent with more straight block copolymer but if you would like better retention, you would include a higher percentage of a reverse block copolymer. Commercially, blends of straight and reverse block copolymers combined have been found to have a higher effectivity in mitigating localized dry spots than either type individually.
You may have seen a block copolymer that has been capped; commonly methyl capped. The act of capping a block copolymer, results in one end of the polymer chain being hydrophobic and the opposite end being hydrophilic (water-loving).
Chemically, hydrophobic substances are attracted to each other so a hydrophobic tail on a polymer chain will anchor itself to
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