KENNEDALE, TX. KENNEDALE, TEXAS. Kennedale is on State Highway 496 ten miles southeast of Fort Worth in southeastern Tarrant County. The area was settled during the 1860s or 1870s at the site of a mineral-water well. A post office opened in 1884.
any compound of one or more fatty acids, or their equivalents, with an alkali. Soap is detergent and used as a cleanser. green soap (medicinal soap) (soft soap) a soap made from vegetable oils other than coconut oil or palm kernel oil, potassium hydroxide as an alkali, and glycerin.
Best Answer: Soaps are the sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids. The tails of the soap molecules are chemically equivalent to fat or oil, i.e. they are both hydrophobic and non-polar. Therefore, soap can dissolve in oil. The heads of soap molecules, however, are hydrophilic and ionic in character. This allows them to dissolve in ionic and polar substances, e.g. water. When oily dirt is immersed in a soap solution, the tails attach themselves to the oil.