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Old 14-02-2010, 05:03 PM
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Methylated spirits is essentially ethyl alcohol C2H5OH. It has added to it a small amount of methyl alcohol CH3OH to make it undrinkable. It also has a small amount of pyridene added which gives it the smell (stink?) and also added to the poisonous denaturing of the spirit. The pyridene does not evaporate easily (b.pt. ~115C) and also leaves a film. Methanol boils at ~65C and ethanol ~78C.
Pure methanol and pure ethanol will both evaporate cleanly. Pure ethanol is hard to get because of government regulations and excise duties. Vodka might go close , but then......
Isopropanol is a good cleaning reagent used for lenses but I dunno about micro-chips. My guess though is that it would be OK.
Robert
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