STEVENS, Circuit Judge.
Alkyl benzene sulfonate ("ABS"), the detergent most widely used in the 1950's, created severe pollution problems because it resisted biodegradation. It was known that structural "branching" in one part of the ABS molecule, the alkyl substituent, was the source of the problem, and that an increase in the incidence of "straight chain" or "linear" alkyl substituents would improve biodegradability. The problem was (a) to start with a linear, rather...
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