Is isopropyl rubbing alcohol and isopropyl alcohol the same thing? Need it for cleaning a piece of equipment?

This is one of those yes/no answers. To a chemist no, to people, the drug store, and cleaning equipment people, usually. The reason is that in a chemistry lab you may have 100% 2-propanol or a 70-90% solution with water. That 70-90% solution is commonly called rubbing alcohol and what you buy at the drug store. With most instructions for cleaning things like printer heads, monitor screens, etc, they use the drug store rubbing alcohol as the cleaner..

Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol

As the other posters have said, the difference is purity. "Rubbing alcohol" in the US anyway is a mixture of 70% isopropyl alcohol and 30% water, whilst "Isopropyl alcohol" is basically straight isopropyl alcohol (propan-2-ol) with the usual levels of moisture and other impurities (unless it's AnalR grade in which case it should be close to 100% pure IPA).

If you are using it for cleaning, they are close to being equivalent. Isopropyl rubbing alcohol is USUALLY a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and water, NOT pure isopropyl alcohol.

I thik so an be carefull I got set on fire by it an almost died got spilled on me an ligt a match an poff spent 30 days in the hospital with 2 an 3 dreger burns am messed up for the rest of my life