I’ve seen Hydrogen Peroxide as an ingredient in a lot of disinfectants, but I’m not well-versed in chemistry, so I was trying to get a better idea of how it works. I keep reading something about the extra oxygen, but if that could be Eli5-ed, that’d be great.
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H2O2 wants to be water (H2O) but it’s got an extra oxygen. The extra oxygen wants to attach to something else so badly that it rips into the cell walls of microbes, essentially burning them do death. Hydrogen peroxide is powerful stuff, try not to use it on your skin.
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