Water and alcohol form what is known as an azeotrope. When mixed, they boil together at a different boiling point to either of the two mixed liquids. A vast number of compounds form azeotropes with each other. The azeotrope of h2o & (ethyl) alcohol boils at 78.1 deg, which is lower than either h2o or alcohol, and the azeotrope mixture is about 5% water and 95% alcohol. If you mixed 50% h2o and 50% alcohol and boiled it, you would initially get a 5/95% h2o and alcohol mix come over together at 78deg untill the alcohol was depleted, and then get pure water at 100deg.(posted 8148 days ago)For this to help with drying, I would guess that adding a little alcohol to water would not help since the ratios are not on your side to promote fast drying, you would need to use a bath that was alcohol with a little water added. In fact, you might just try using pure alcohol (iso-propyl alcohol would work a little better as the ratios are 12/88% and 80.4deg).