why does water ruin electronics but alcohol doesn’t?

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I often work with circuit boards at my job. I don’t do anything special, I mainly just clean them and screw them into their housings. But when we clean them, we completely soak them into alcohol over and over again until they are spotless. How does this not damage the circuit board or the components on the board? Yet if I drop my phone in water, it will ruin it.

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I used to work for Supra (Later purchased by Diamond Multimedia), they made modems. Whenever we had one returned to be fixed, one of the first things we did was run them thru a dishwasher. No detergent, just tap water. Once they dried, we worked on them. Never had any fail from water damage.

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