Alkylene oxide-sulfur dioxide copolymer surface active agents

A nonionic composition that exhibits activity as a surface active agent which comprises the alkylene oxide--sulfur dioxide copolymer adducts of a water soluble alcohol having at least one oxyalkylene group in the chain which is represented by the general formula:

• ##STR6## wherein R is an alkyl group, R.sup.1,2,3,4, which can be the same or different, are hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, n is an integer of from 1 up to a value of about 1000, m is an integer of from 1 up to a value of about 1000, and OA is a divalent radical selected from the group consisting of oxyethylene units and mixtures of oxyethylene units and oxypropylene units having oxyporpylene units up to a ratio of about 1:1.