The power goes out and the only light source you have available is a chemical glow stick. As you sit in the dark with this tiny light source you think
about your lesson on endothermic and exothermic reactions. Do you think
this reaction would be classified as an endothermic or an exothermic reaction?
Be sure to state your evidence and reasoning for your answer.

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.