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Mystery solved: How bleach kills germs
Reuters
Thu Nov 13, 2:46 pm ET
"CHICAGO (Reuters) ? Bleach has been killing germs for more than 200 years but U.S. scientists have just figured out how the cleaner does its dirty work.
It seems that hypochlorous acid, the active ingredient in bleach, attacks proteins in bacteria, causing them to clump up much like an egg that has been boiled, a team at the University of Michigan reported in the journal Cell on Thursday."
For full article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081113/sc_nm/us_bleach
Reuters
Thu Nov 13, 2:46 pm ET
"CHICAGO (Reuters) ? Bleach has been killing germs for more than 200 years but U.S. scientists have just figured out how the cleaner does its dirty work.
It seems that hypochlorous acid, the active ingredient in bleach, attacks proteins in bacteria, causing them to clump up much like an egg that has been boiled, a team at the University of Michigan reported in the journal Cell on Thursday."
For full article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081113/sc_nm/us_bleach