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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Water doesn’t ruin electronics, in fact it’s used regularly in production. I work at an EMS plant and there are plenty of assemblies that get washed with water throughout the production process.