Earth has approximately 600,000,000 meters of coastline. If we assume this entire length of coastline has sandy beaches 60 meters wide and 20 meters deep, how many cubic meters of sand are on the beaches? Express your answer to the correct number of significant figures. There are × 10^ cubic meters of sand on the beaches.

Both models are effective because they show the valence electrons, and these valence electrons indicate the reactivity of an element.

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.