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The table's garbage. It's showing the total volume as exactly equal to water volume plus alcohol volume, out to four digits. That's not how it works. A mixture of water and alcohol (whether ethanol or isopropyl) gets more compact because the different molecules can pack together better, by up to a few percent.


Is it inaccurate enough that it cannot be used to safely create disinfectant-grade 70% dilutions from 99% or 91%?


If you're measuring things by slopping them into a measuring cup instead of weighing them out to the milligram, you'll never know the difference.


It won't matter for "eh somewhere between 55% and 75% is fine", but if you have a good measuring cup you could easily see the difference in volume.

I don't know why the chart assumes you're measuring down to thirds of milligrams, though...




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