On Wednesday May 4 2005 11:39 am, James Knott wrote:
Preston Crawford wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:02 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
Alcohol is, indeed, a solvent. But isopropyl alcohol, obtainable at any pharmacy as rubbing alcohol, should work for this application.
Actually, rubbing alcohol is not suitable. It may contain oils etc., that can cause problems.
So is isopropyl alcohol also not suitable. Or are they not the same thing?
Isopropyl alcohol is fine. I was warning about rubbing alcohol, which may contain other ingredients. It might also be ethanol and not isopropyl alcohol. Rubbing alcohol used to be ethanol with a little methanol to discourage consumption. That didn't work of course, and maybe that's why it is often isopropyl alcohol now.
Charly Baker