Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An adhesive substance with an acrylate base that is used in industry and medicine.
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- noun organic chemistry Any of a class of
esters of thecyano derivative ofacrylic acid that are used asinstant adhesives
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Examples
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Coover stumbled upon the chemical, called cyanoacrylate, in 1942 while developing gun sights for Eastman Kodak.
Boing Boing David Pescovitz 2011
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The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate.
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The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate.
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Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company when an accident resulted in the creation of cyanoacrylate – better known as Super Glue – according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina.
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It is held together with a combination of screws, hot melt glue, and cyanoacrylate glue.
Boing Boing 2008
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It may be called Krazy Glue, but the effect of cyanoacrylate fumes on the eyes is no laughing matter.
Sweetest Ta-glue: Putting the "Sade" in "Crusade" BikeSnobNYC 2010
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A medical literature search shows that, in general, several of them — ethyl cyanoacrylate, formalin, toluene, and MMA — have been shown to induce neuropathy and can cause one or more of the following: irritation of the eyes, skin, mucous membranes, respiratory tract, or damage the kidneys or liver.
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It only takes ten minutes for the cyanoacrylate—the Krazy Glue—to properly work.
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
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There were dozens of good ways to raise latent prints but one of the best, on metal surfaces, was simply to use store-bought Super Glue, cyanoacrylate.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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He walked over to a cyanoacrylate fuming box located on a table nearby.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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