Super glue (cyanoacrylate) was originally developed as an emergency field
dressing for the Viet nam conflict.  It comes in many forms (methyl, ethyl,
propyl, butyl etc.) depending on the length of the carbon atom chain.  In
Canada where the drug approval process is different from the USA it is used
in hospitals as a less traumatic substitute for suturing.  Perhaps that is
why it is so effective at glueing careless fingers together.
 
Mike Iacoboni
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Simpson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: super-glue
 
 
>The remainder of the super glue goes on the tips of your first finger and
>thumb.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Art Weil <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 11:12 AM
>Subject: super-glue
>
>
>>Dear anyone;-
>>        You know about super-glue?! The stuff you use to join both halves
>of
>>bivalves when you don't want anyone to see the insides? The question is:
>>Where does it go?
>>        You buy the super-glue, take it home and use it once  (maybe
>twice),
>>then you put it away. Next time you need it, it isn't there. It isn't
>>anywhere. It's gone. You have to go buy another tube. The lost tube
>>never turns up again. Now, I'm not stupid. I know all about the
>>disappearing paper clips---how they metamorphose and change into coat
>>hangers. Aren't there always unused shiny coat-hangers in your closet?
>>(I have no evidence that buried and watered coat-hangers eventually
>>change into bicycles).
>>        But where does the super-glue go?
>>The Question Man