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Dis forDisinfectant
Disinfectant is a substance that is used, usually while cleaning, to kill most germs and micro-organisms it comes into contact with. Disinfectants by no means kill all micro-organisms, which can cause its own set of problems as the ones that survive can then breed with less competition from the other micro-organisms that the disinfectant killed.