91% Isopropyl Alcohol

[Ohmsnut22]

Can I use 91% Isopropyl Alcohol. It says on the back though that it includes purified water which worries me.

[DarkEnergy]

I use the same stuff and haven't had an issue. Wouldn't recommend using it on plastic though.

[Semper]

All isopropyl alcohol I know of has some water content in it.

It should be fine so long as you're not trying to run it in a water cooling loop or some bizarre use case unforeseen.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

4 minutes ago, Semper said:

All isopropyl alcohol I know of has some water content in it.

also note that pure water is also safe and cannot conduct electricity 

[ImThaLAW]

2 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

also note that pure water is also safe and cannot conduct electricity 

Do you have  a source on this I'm genuinely interested

[Semper]

12 minutes ago, ImThaLAW said:

Do you have  a source on this I'm genuinely interested

Any credible scientific outlet on the matter. It's not entirely incapable of doing so, but it is a poor conductor.
Truly pure (or as close as we can get it) water does unexpected things. It's the impurities that water naturally pick up (due to hydrogen bonding, I believe) that change the way it interacts with the world around it.

https://www.lenntech.com/applications/ultrapure/conductivity/water-conductivity.htm

https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/do-you-think-that-water-conducts-electricity-if-you-do-then-youre-wrong.html

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

7 minutes ago, ImThaLAW said:

Do you have  a source on this I'm genuinely interested

basically, water structure is a molecule and dont have mobile ions

[A1Mike_W]

Just a disclaimer for anyone that gets the same idea as my cousin, pure water isn't "safe" to use on electronics. It'll pick up ions from whatever it's on and become conductive really quickly.