Due to the more rigid nature of their covalent bonds, nonmetals show low
and high brittleness.

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.

A1 a 2 a 3 ooh lol i think that's it

The product formed when bao and h2o  react together is                        ba(oh)2that is  bao + h2o = ba(oh)21 mole of    bao    react  1 mole of h2o  to    form  1 mole  of ba(oh)2