What the hell is rubbing alcohol??!


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What the hell is rubbing alcohol??


i saw someone drink it, i have no idea what it is, any ebay links or anything?:S


Answers: are you serious?? drinking rubbing alcohol heh..someone must want to either die or have some serious stomach problems umm its used to clean cuts on your skin.....
that person who drank it better go to the hospital before they die rubbign alcahol is what you use on some sort of cotten swab and there use to chean soem ones cuts to disinfect against germs Rubbing alcohol can clean surgeon's hands for disinfection. It's also used for sterilizing surfaces. You are not suppose to drink rubbing alcohol. It is used for cleaning wounds. Some people that are extremely addicted to alcohol have been known to drink rubbing alcohol because it is much cheaper than beer or wine or any other alcohol. isopropanol? hmmmm. pour some in your gas tank before winter. An alcohol for sanitary or medical uses specially for cuts,etc. rubbing alchohol is pure alchohol .. 100% use it to disinfect cuts and other injuries .... it feels nice when applied, helps you forget sh1t ... just like normal alchohol what the hell are all these dumbass kids doing on this site? Rubbing Alcohol...I thought that was the name of a classic Beatles album. Oh no. Wait a minute. That was rubber-something. Rubbing Alcohol. I think it's a medicinal beverage that you shouldn't actually drink. But it would be a great name for a cheap brand of Minnesota vodka. The college boys would love it just for the name alone. Rubbing alcohol is either ethanol or isopropyl that is at least 70% concentrated. It can be applied externally as a cooling, soothing application for bedridden patients and athletes. It is also widely used for cleansing the surgeon's hands and instruments and for disinfection of the skin prior to penetration of the skin by a hypodermic needle. As an antiseptic it is good against vegetative bacteria and fair against fungi and viruses. It is ineffective against spores. It is widely believed that 70% ethanol provides the greatest reduction in bacterial count; however, this is in error. Other concentrations may be more effective, but their rate of kill is slower. In order to reduce the skin bacterial count to 5% of normal, 70% ethanol must be left on the skin for at least 2 min. Rubbing alcohol is also a feeble anesthetic and a mild counterirritant. It is not drinkable, although people have been known to attempt ingestion.

Rubbing alcohol is recognized as a rubefacient because it evaporates quickly and is used to cool and soothe skin. It is, however, more widely used as an antiseptic for sterilizing surfaces or clean minor cuts or abrasions.

Isopropyl rubbing alcohol can also be supplied in a 99% concentration. This product is used to harden skin such as in the case of the feet of novice hikers. Care should always be taken, and label of the preparation read carefully. It is unsuited as a fuel in alcohol stoves because of the relatively low vapor pressure of isopropyl alcohol.

In the UK the equivalent skin preparation is surgical spirit which is always based on an ethyl alcohol-methyl alcohol mixture, and which often has the addition of small quantities of iodoform as a topical bacteriocide.

A typical modern composition for Surgical Spirit BP is: ethanol, methanol, water, castor oil, methyl salicylate, diethyl phthalate. It has a strong smell of oil of wintergreen due to the presence of the methyl salicylate.

It can also be mixed with pool chlorine to produce chlorine gas. If you do this chemical reaction inside a closed soda bottle, the gas will build up until it pops (large version of a bomb bag). Unfortunately it is not safe to attempt this because the chlorine gas is very harmful.

Rubbing alcohol is sometimes consumed by those who cannot afford or cannot legally buy beverage alcohol (ethanol). The minimum age of 21 to purchase alcohol in the United States does not apply to rubbing alcohol.Rubbing alcohol products that contain methyl alcohol (methanol) can cause blindness or death when consumed.

Rubbing alcohol burns with a bright blue flame, which is almost invisible in the light, but visible in the dark. The higher the alcohol percentage, the richer the color, typically. Not for ingestion. It's great for disinfecting.
You buy it at your local drug store. household alcohol the kind you use for emrgencies like cuts. It's isopropyl alcohol, which means you are NEVER supposed to drink it. It's poisonous. The kind you can drink is ethanol. When a chemical is an alcohol, it just means that an -OH group is attached to it.

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