Denatured alcohol seems to be a mixture of primarily ethanol. However,
it does contain some other stuff that may be why I've observed it
affecting plastic. It has never been a strong effect, but when you
work on consumer electronics the last thing you need is to be cleaning
smoke off a TV and have your rag stick to a thin melted layer of plastic.
Not all plastics are the same- nylon is unaffected by quite a lot of
solvents, for instance. A glue for PVC may hardly touch some other
kind of plastic like plexiglass.
Steve Greenfield, not a chemist just bumbling along
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "RandyL"
<randy-list-address@t...> wrote:
> No, they're not the same. Ethyl Alcohol is the kind you drink.
isopropanol is rubbing alcohol, and Ethylene Glycol is antifreeze. The
two latter ones are deadly poison. All will disolve diferent
chemicals. I keep all three around for various uses.....hehe....hic...g
>
> RandyL