Alcohol is C2H5OH
Spiritus is CHOH
Beiden noemen we alcoholen, ze behoren dus tot de zelfde chemische groep
Alcohol noemen we de geest van wijn, spiritus de geest van hout. Daar ligt ook de basis van de productie; vergisten van suikers of vergisten van houtachtige verbindingen.
Alcohol is voor de mens prima te verteren, spiritus leidt o.a. tot blindheid.
Echter voor het doel waar we hier over schrijven is spiritus net zo geschikt als alcohol en veel goedkoper.
Het beste is echter isopropyl alcohol of kortweg IPA. Reinigt en ontvet uitstekend en reageert vrijwel nergens mee.
CiteerIsopropyl alcohol dissolves a wide range of non-polar compounds. It also evaporates quickly, leaves nearly zero oil traces, compared to ethanol, and is relatively non-toxic, compared to alternative solvents. Thus, it is used widely as a solvent and as a cleaning fluid, especially for dissolving oils. Together with ethanol, n-butanol, and methanol, it belongs to the group of alcohol solvents, about 6.4 million tonnes of which were utilized worldwide in 2011.[14]
Examples of this application include cleaning electronic devices such as contact pins (like those on ROM cartridges), magnetic tape and disk heads (such as those in audio and video tape recorders and floppy disk drives), the lenses of lasers in optical disc drives (e.g., CD, DVD) and removing thermal paste from heatsinks and IC packages (such as CPUs[15]).
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