e premte, 14 nëntor 2008

Mystery solved: How bleach kills germs

Research out of the University of Michigan 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 11/14/08.

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