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Sterilizing with alcohol?

Ben Feldman 103153.3041 at CompuServe.COM
Tue Dec 19 18:35:17 EST 1995


Please excuse the attached if I have chosen the wrong newsgroup.

I need to sterilize some electrodes.  If memory serves, a biologist 
friend once told me that 70% alcohol works well as a disinfectant.  
Is this true?  If so,

(1) ethanol or isopropanol?
(2) why 70% instead of 100%?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Ben Feldman



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