Why is alcohol so effective at disinfecting wounds?

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Why is alcohol so effective at disinfecting wounds?

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Most organisms have a very restricted set of parameters it requires to stay alive, alcohol is bactericidal which essentially means it directly causes the bacteria in a wound to die through denaturing their proteins and rupturing cell walls.

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