Isopropyl Alcohol

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Isopropyl alcohol is a colorless, flammable liquid with a wide variety of uses. It has a wide range of uses in the home and is used in labs, in medicine, and in many manufacturing industries. It is also commonly used as a cleaning fluid. This alcohol does have some toxic properties, so people should be careful when they use it. This experiment involved a mouse on the computer, and the alcohol. The mouse was very dirty, but we wanted to see how dirty it really was. If the isopropyl alcohol really worked, then most of the bacteria would be removed from the mouse. The materials I used for this experiment were a Isopropyl alcohol wipe, swab, petri dish, and a gel-like substance in the petri-dish. First, I divided the gel in the petri dish in

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