What is Super Glue®?

Super Glue® is the trade name of adhesive based on cyanoacrylate, specifically ethyl-2-kyanoacrylate. Another popular ethyl-2-acidacrylate glue is glue®, while a number of adhesives such as Vetbond®, Indermil®, Liquivet® and Histoakryl® Super Glue® are well known for its amazing ability to attach two things together and also the fact that it can seal the skin together or skin. Due to its strength, affordability and relative ease of use, Super Glue® has become a favorite glue for a wide range of applications. From fans to workers to physicians to ballerinas, Super Glue® can be found in many unlikely places.

originally Cyanoacrylate was discovered during World War II. Although the city legend claims that the adhesives were used in the war as a way to treat soldiers' wounds, the adhesive was not discovered. In fact, it was discovered quite by chance when trying to better look of a plastic weapon. When he stuck to universityEmu, what he touched, apparently it was not very useful for this purpose, so his inventor Dr. Harry Coover of Kodak Labs.

After the war, Dr. Coover returned to the cyanoacrylate because he would think it would be possible to produce aircraft canopy. Again, it was completely bad for this application. At this point, however, he saw the possibilities that it offers as a fast -acting adhesive in industrial power and released it as Eastman #910. Dr. Coover showed his new adhesive in 1959, on the famous episode of the TV show "I have a secret" in which a single drop of adhesive that lifted the host of the show from the ground. In the mid -sixties, medical applications of cyanoacrylate were implemented and in Vietnam the adhesive was actually used in the field, mostly in the form of a spray, as a method of bleeding and temporary closure of wounds.

The same potential of skin connection is sometimes a curse for fans useSUPER GLUE® for projects. Even a little on the skin can join your fingers together or toes. Attempting to stretch the fingers generally to tear the skin and cause the wound. It is important to be very careful when trying to remove Super Glue®, take the right measures and take a lot of patience.

Super Glue® trick is to use acetone to weaken its binding and then slowly tear off the skin binding. Acetone is most common in a house in the nail polish remover and can be applied to an area of ​​jamming with cotton swab. Once it has been thoroughly applied, it can be slowly apart from each other, be careful not to tear off suddenly, because it generally tears the skin. Not all nail polish remover contain acetone, so it is important to check and ensure that the product you use otherwise does not achieve anything.

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