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Alcohol removes color from anodized aluminum?

I had a sample aluminum part machined and anodized to a red color.Today, I tried cleaning it with rubbing alcohol and noticed some faint red color on the paper towel.I also had another one anodized in a blue color but that is fine.Why does the color come off on the red one? Is this normal? It doesn't ruin the part, in fact, you can't notice anything on the part, but there is a red tint on the paper towel.

Answer:

No, you don't want a continuous foilGo buy bagged microwave pop corn and after cooking and carefully opening examine the inner surface of the side that gets hot enough to pop the corn - labeled this side down - it is a painted metal material with gaps between the tiny particles.
BECAUSE THAT RED USED ALCOHOL TYPE SOVENT BASE, SAME TYPE AS THE RED PEN MARKERYOU MAY PUT THE RED BACK WITH RED MARKER.
It's a matter of, why would you want to? NoNo metals in microwave oven, other than perhaps very small pieces sometimes used to cover the legs of poultry, to prevent the small mass of meat on them from being dried out.

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