• Question: What is the name of a chemical that kills bacteria?

    Asked by Nora900 to Ben on 9 Mar 2018.
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      Ben Mulhearn answered on 9 Mar 2018:


      Many chemicals kill bacteria, so I suppose the general term would be bactericide? If they don’t KILL bacteria but stop them from growing, the are bacteriostatic.

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