The fluid is a common, mass-produced petrochemical called linear alkylbenzene, or LAB, used to make clear detergents, like liquid hand soap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

For example, there is not a lot of excess capacity for linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS), the world's largest volume surfactants, Burns observes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

LAB is the pre-cursor to linear alkylbenzene sulphonate (LAS), the most widely used surfactant in the world, commonly found in detergents and other household cleaning products.    From Wordnik.com.  [AME Info Latest News] Reference

Typical of recent price trends in surfactants are the movements in linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS), a widely used group of synthetic surfactants that are the main cleaning ingredients in household detergents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

Gordon Graff -- Purchasing, 12/2/2009 1: 58: 26 PM Despite a decline in demand, prices for surfactant linear alkylbenzene sulfonate have remained stubbornly higher than other chemicals, steadily increasing off a cyclical bottom in April.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

The combined volume of the two heads of agreements totals over a quarter of Pearl GTL's normal paraffin production and is destined for GPC's proposed linear alkylbenzene (LAB) plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia and TPL's existing plant in Chennai, India.    From Wordnik.com.  [AME Info Latest News] Reference