Hydrogen Peroxide
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Lessons

Hydrogen peroxide is a strong oxidizing agent, stronger that permanganate and chlorine. Safety issues.

Human health effects of hydrogen peroxide (pdf file)

Hydrogen peroxide can be obtained at your local grocery store.

H2O2 has many uses

• Why does hydrogen peroxide foam when you put it on a cut?
• For disinfecting fruits and vegetables
• Bleaching and brightening
• Peroxide generation for contact lens disinfection
• Rocket Fuel
• wastewater treatment
• links to a variety of uses

How peroxide is produced in living things

• here too!
• chronic granulomatous disease (GCD)

• FAQs about hydrogen peroxide
• A winning essay by a Canadian high school student

How peroxide kills bacteria

What happens to people with acatalasemia

Reactions it is used for

Why it is toxic to cells. Peroxide radical is very highly reactive and binds to proteins, inactivating them.

How cells detoxify . Cells produce catalase, in their peroxisomes or lysosomes which turn the peroxide into water and oxygen gas.

Enzymes that produce peroxide.

Enzymes that detoxify peroxide.

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