64.8k views
4 votes
How does washing your hands with soap inactivate coronaviruses that may be on your hands?

2 Answers

12 votes

When you wash your hands with soap and water, you surround any microorganisms on your skin with soap molecules. The hydrophobic tails of the free-floating soap molecules attempt to evade water; in the process, they wedge themselves into the lipid envelopes of certain microbes and viruses, prying them apart.

Yea I copied it owo

User Ataravati
by
7.9k points
6 votes

Answer:

Soap has chemicals that kill bacteria

User XMight
by
7.8k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

9.4m questions

12.2m answers

Categories