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a chemical bouncer that murders microbes but couldn't care less about the spores hiding in back.
means A chemical agent applied to surfaces or objects to destroy or inactivate harmful microorganisms, though typically not all spores.
from Built from the prefix "dis-" (undoing, reversing) bolted onto "infect," which traces back to Latin "inficere" — literally "to put in, stain, taint," from "in-" (into) plus "facere" (to make or do). So an infection was something "made into" you, and the disinfectant is the great undoer of that staining. The word entered English alongside the rise of germ theory in the 19th century, when people finally understood there was something invisible worth scrubbing away.
- label myth
- Kills 99.9 percent, leaving millions alive
- contact time
- Must stay wet for minutes, not seconds
- alcohol limit
- Below 60 percent it barely works
- bleach quirk
- Mixing with ammonia makes toxic gas
- spore proof
- C. diff shrugs off most disinfectants
lysol — spray disinfectant brand created by reckitt benckiser in 1926
dettol — antiseptic disinfectant made by reckitt benckiser, launched in india in 1933
clorox bleach — sodium hypochlorite disinfectant made by clorox company since 1913