“…Methods reported for the quantitative determination of polyethylene glycols in nonionic surfactants include paper chromatography (1), adsorption chromatography (2), partition chromatography (3), gas chromatograpny (4,5), thin layer 1presented at the Meeting of the American Oil Chemists' Society, April 1976, New Orleans. chromatography (6,7), solvent extraction (8), sedimentation (9,10), and organic analysis (11). The primary problems often encountered with these methods are long analysis time, lack of specificity, difficulty of quantitation, limited application, and poor precision and accuracy.…”