tritonvt, it was regular rubbing alcohol. The bottle said it was 91% Isopropyl Alcohol and that the only other thing it contained was water.
Mark, great story with the everclear dude. Even being in the freezer and doing the ice and rock salt trick at the same time didn't get it cold enough. And I think that going to the extent of using liquid nitrogen or trying to distill it might end up being more costly and difficult than just trying to buy a more pure alcohol (but I have always wanted an exucuse to play with some liquid nitrogen
). Besides I don't know what the minimum percent alcohol for a DNA extraction is, so I can't be sure that purity was the problem. That was just my best guess.
-Scott
side note for mark: I think you kinda got the name mixed up. its not J Brockey, its more like J.B. Rockey. You see, my dad's first and middle initals are J.B. (wich is what he usually goes by) and the Rockey is derrived from my mom's name, Racquel. Not extremely important, but I figured you might like to know.
