Eli5: Why does alcohol remove ink?
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Some things will dissolve in water, in fact most things will and that’s why we use water for washing things.
But there are some things that will NOT dissolve in water. But many of those things are alcohol soluble and so we use alcohol to clean those up. Ink is a good example, as are many paints, some oils and so on. Things that water just does not work on, alcohol often does.
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