cyanoacrylate

• “Coover stumbled upon the chemical, called cyanoacrylate, in 1942 while developing gun sights for Eastman Kodak.”

  Boing Boing

• “The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate.”

  USA Today: Harry Coover, Super Glue inventor, dies at 94

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Super Glue inventor dies aged 94

• “The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate.”

  The Guardian: Super Glue inventor dies aged 94

• “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.”

  Consumer Reports: Manicures: The price may be higher than it seems

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Burning Wire

• “He walked over to a cyanoacrylate fuming box located on a table nearby.”

  Simon & Schuster: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment

• “It is held together with a combination of screws, hot melt glue, and cyanoacrylate glue.”

  Boing Boing

• “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"

• “It only takes ten minutes for the cyanoacrylate—the Krazy Glue—to properly work.”

  Simon & Schuster: HOUSE RULES

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