Both hydrogen peroxide and thymol are anti bacterials which are used to kill bacterial cells because both of them target cell membrane of bacteria. They both are equally effective because the target of both of these is same, all the mechanism is slightly different.
Hydrogen peroxide causes the oxidation of molecules present in membrane. This is also called as lipid peroxidation. This describes the structural properties of membrane and therefore Bacteria is killed.
Thymol interacts with dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine of membrane present in bacteria. This destroys the structure of bacterial membrane causing leakage of cell contents and therefore death of the bacterial cell.
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