How does chlorine kill bacteria?

to kill bacteria

Chlorine is added to drinking water to kill the bacteria in it.

Chlorine is added to drinking water to kill bacteria.

No. In fact chlorine is added to swimming pools to kill bacteria.

Chlorine is used as Bleach to clean, and swimming pools to kill bacteria.

It is often used in pools to kill both algae and bacteria that is produced.

No. White blood cells do not use chlorine or any other gas. Chlorine would not be effective is it is as toxic to us as it is to bacteria. White blood cells kill bacteria by consuming them and then breaking them down with enzymes.

Water is chlorinated to kill bacteria.

Chlorine is a common chemical used to kill bacteria in U.S. public water systems.

Type your answer here... Chlorine gas is used to kill bacteria in the swimming pools.

Usually a chlorine based chemical is used. But chlorine doesn't kill it all. See link for more.

Chlorine is added to water to kill harmful bacteria.

To prevent algae from growing and to kill bacteria

A tiny bit of chlorine.

Chlorine, with formula Cl2.

there is only one chlorine you can only get one so it's not different types it's just chlorine lollolololl

The water has chlorine in it to kill bacteria and viruses, so they are really tasting the chlorine, not the water.

Both will kill bacteria if you add them to water however there are lots of bacteria adapted to live in salt water but I don't know of many adapted to live with chlorine.

Chlorine or an alternate form of sanitizer is necessary to kill bacteria which would grown in pool water if left untreated.

You can either boil the water or add chlorine.

adding a high dosage of chlorine to your swimming pool water to kill bacteria.

chlorine is used in swimmingpool to kill the virus &bacteria presnt in the water.

Chlorine is used to kill bacteria in swimming pools. It's the same thing used to clean your drinking water.

Well... if you were ODed with chlorine, you would die. The amount in a pool wouldn't harm you, but because bacteria and algae are 1000 times smaller than you, they can die easier. Yes, chlorine can kill.

no it's only cotton and the chlorine will kill any bacteria