Detergent composition

Claim 1

A SYNERGISTIC TERNARY DETERGENT COMPOSITION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF THE FOLLOWING INGREDIENTS: (I) FROM ABOUT 12% TO ABOUT 60% OF A DETERGENT I WHICH IS A MIXTURE OF FROM ABOUT 30% TO ABOUT 70% OF COMPONENT A, FROM ABOUT 20% TO ABOUT 70% OF COMPONENT B, AND FROM ABOUT 2% TO ABOUT 15% OF COMPONENT C, WHEREIN: (A) SAID COMPONENT A IS A MIXTURE OF DOUBLE-BOND POSITIONAL ISOMERS OF WATER SOLUBLE SALTS OF ALKENE-1-SULFONIC ACIDS CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO ABOUT 16 CARBON ATOMS, SAID MIXTURE OF POSITIONAL ISOMERS INCLUDING ABOUT 10% TO ABOUT 25% OF AN ALPHA-BETA UNSATURATED ISOMER, ABOUT 30% TO ABOUT 70% OF A BETA-GAMMA UNSATURATED ISOMER, ABOUT 5% TO ABOUT 25% OF A GAMMADELTA UNSATURATED ISOMER, AND ABOUT 5% TO ABOUT 10% OF A DELTA-EPSILON UNSATURATED ISOMER; (B) SAID COMPONENT B IS A MIXTURE OF WATER SOLUBLE SALTS OF BIFUNCTIONALLY-SUBSTITUTED SULFURCONTAINING SATURATED ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO ABOUT 16 CARBON ATOMS, THE FUNCTIONAL UNITES BEING HYDROXY AND SULFONATE RADICALS WITH THE SULFONATE RADICAL ALWAYS BEING ON THE TERMINAL CARBON AND THE HYDROXYL RADICAL BEING ATTACHED TO A CARBON ATOM AT LEAST TWO CARBON ATOMS REMOVED FROM THE TEMRINAL CARBON ATOM, AT LEAST 90% OF THE HYDROXY RADICAL SUBSTITUTIONS BEING IN THE 3, 4 AND 5 POSITIONS; AND (C) SAID COMPONENT C IS A MIXTURE COMPRISING FROM 30-95% WATER-SOLUBL SALTS OF ALKENE DISULFONATE CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO ABOUT 16 CARBON ATOMS, AND FROM ABOUT 5% TO ABOUT 70% WATER-SOLUBLE SALTS OF HYDROXY DISFULFONATES CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO ABOUT 16 CARBON ATOMS, SAID ALKENE DISULFAONTES CONTAINING A SULFONATE GROUP ATTACHD TO A TERMINAL CARBON ATOM AND A SECOND SULFONATE GROUP ATTACHED TO AN INTERNAL CARBON ATOM NOT MORE THAN ABOUT SIX CARBON ATOMS REMOVED FROM SAID TERMINAL CARBON ATOM, THE ALKENE DOUBLE BOND BEING DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN THE TERMINAL CARBON ATOMS AND ABOUT THE SEVENTH CARBON ATOM, SAID HYDROXY DISULFONATES BEING SATURATED ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS HAVING A SULFONATE RADICAL ATTACHED TO A TERMINAL CARBON, A SECOND SULFONATE GROUP ATTACHED TO AN INTERNAL CARBON ATOM NOT MORE THAN ABOUT SIX CARBON ATOMS REMOVED FROM SAID TERMINAL CARBON ATOM, AND A HYDROXY GROUP ATTACHED TO A CARBON ATOM WHICH IS NOT MORE THAN ABOUT FOUR CARBON ATOMS REMOVED FROM THE SITE OF ATTACHMENT OF SAID SECOND SULFONATE GROUP; (II) FROM ABOUT 6% TO ABOUT 50% OF DETERGENT II WHICH IS AN ALKALI METAL SULFURIC ACID ESTER OF AN ALKYL ETHOXYLATE CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 10 TO ABOUT 14 CARBON ATOMS IN THE ALKYL PORTION, AND FROM 1 TO ABOUT 5 MOLES OF EHTYLENE OXIDE; AND (III) FROM ABOUT 15% TO ABOUT 74% OF DETERGENT III WHICH IS A ZWITTERIONIC AUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF COMPOUNDS HAVING THE FORMULA