Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol. Most rubbing alcohol is made from isopropyl alcohol or isopropanol in water. It is common to find isopropyl rubbing alcohol at concentrations from 68% alcohol in water up to 99% alcohol in water. The 70% rubbing alcohol is highly effective as a disinfectant.
fluid - a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure. 1  substance - the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; DNA is the substance of our genes.
In physics, a fluid is a substance that continually deforms under an applied shear stress. Fluids are a subset of the phases of matter and include liquids, gases, plasmas, and to some extent, plastic solids. Fluids are substances that have zero shear modulus, or, in simpler terms, a fluid is a substance which cannot resist any shear force applied to it. Although the term fluid includes both the liquid and gas phases, in common usage, fluid is often used as a synonym for liquid, with no imp