Sorry if I was unclear. Isopropanol evaporates without residue, but that has nothing to do it being a combination of propylene and water any more than the properties of table salt are related to those of sodium and chlorine.
It may leave a residue if enough of it is not used, but that's just the redeposition of what was there before the wash; what alcohols do not do is evaporate away substances which are not themselves volatile. I could go into details of why alcohols can be solvents of both organic and inorganic substances, but that would get extremely boring for most of us.
I am a chemist, or at least I was in a former life.
Awesome, thank you for clarifying. Sorry to sound obtuse but in your educated opinion would you say yay or nay on the Isopropanol for string cleaning? I wouldn't want to inadvertently steer anybody wrong. Thank you for your patience
