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You would be correct, boiling water does disinfect contamination.    the property of disinfecting means to kill  germs, bacteria and other pathogens or contamination  that might cause an infection or cause a person to become sickly. a couple methods of disinfecting are using soap, other cleaning supplies or by simply "boiling" the contaminate.  the reason why boiling water disinfects certain attributes is because some cells cannot survive the heat and pressure.

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Yes, well how much of all chemistry is to do with numbers? a lot! so being good at mathematics makes a huge aspect of chemistry so much easier but if you aren't mathematical then you can work at it and become reasonably proficient at it.hope i ~