How Is Chlorine Dioxide Produced?

Sodium chloride is the common table salt. Even though chlorine dioxide is a gas at room temperature, and is released in a gaseous form, it is being released into water, the medium in which the whole reaction is taking place. Now an interesting fact about chlorine dioxide is that it is highly soluble in water, it is about 10 times more soluble than chlorine. So, when you use one of our ‘liquid delivery’ systems, and you prepare it according to the given instructions, the solution you get will have chlorine dioxide dissolved in it. When you apply that solution to surfaces for disinfection, the dissolved chlorine dioxide will start doing its work.

How Does Chlorine Dioxide Kill Harmful Micro-organisms?

Chlorine dioxide eliminates harmful micro-organisms through a process called oxidation. All micro-organisms are made up organic molecules such as proteins, polysaccharides and nucleic acids. Oxidation can denature proteins and other organic molecules in the walls and inside micro-organisms. When their protective walls are disrupted and their metabolic machinery jeopardised, deadly micro-organisms die. Chlorine dioxide is a powerful oxidising agent. The term micro-organism is a broad one. It includes bacteria, viruses and fungi. Even the walls of tough bacterial spores are organic in nature, and thus susceptible to the action of chlorine dioxide. Micro-organisms do not have the inherent ability to counter chlorine dioxide’s oxidative attack. This leads us to the good news: micro-organisms cannot develop resistance to chlorine dioxide.

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