How does heating the bacterial smear during a ZN stain promote entry carbolfuchsin into the acid-fast cell wall?

Since the acid-fast cell wall contains waxy mycolic acid, heat must be added in order for the carbol fuchsin stain to enter and remain in the cell wall (similar to if you were attempting to color a...

Eukaryotic cells walls are usually made of cellulose or chitin. In contrast, most bacterial cell walls contain peptidoglycan, a network of modified-sugar polymers.

It is the waxy lipid in the structure of the cell wall that causes it to be acid fast.

Because in a culture of bacterium, it stains the bacteria that are pathogenic (disease causing).

Carbol fuschin ( means steaming red)