Detergents containing water-soluble copolymers containing as copolymerized units monomers having two or more ethylenically unsaturated double bonds

Abstract From the Canadian patent

O.Z. 0050/39183, Abstract of the Disclosure: A surfactant-based detergent contains water-soluble copolymers which contain a) from 99.5 to 15 mol % of one or more monoethylenically unsaturated C3- to C6-monocarboxylic acids b) from 0.5 to 20 mol % of one or more comonomers which contain two or more ethylenically unsaturated nonconjugated double bonds and have one or more -CO-OX groups where X is hydrogen, an alkali metal, one equivalent of an alkaline earth metal or ammonium, c) from 0 to 84.5 mol % of one or more monoethylenically unsaturated C4- to C6-dicarboxylic acids d) from 0 to 20 mol % of one or more hydroxyalkyl esters of monoethylenically unsaturated C3- to C6-carboxylic acids and, …