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Research has found that HPNCs can kill bacteria in aqueous environments by producing reactive oxygen species when exposed to light. Reactive oxygen species like singlet oxygen and hydroxide react ...

A disinfectant is a substance used to kill or inactivate bacteria, viruses and other microbes ... such as heat treatment or the use of UV light, typically when we think of disinfectants we are ...

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