Why does permanent marker erase after retracing it with dry-erase?

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Why does permanent marker erase after retracing it with dry-erase?

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It’s the solvent, like the other commenters stated.

Fun fact: I used to carry around some isopropyl alcohol when I was in the army to erase the markings on whatever map we were working on. It worked well.

Edit: we also carried little hand sanitizer bottles for field ops and they worked as well.

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