It's Krazy! (glue)
April 30, 2004 6:20 AM Subscribe
Serendipity saves lives and holds a lot of things together. Harry Coover, an Eastman chemist, was trying to develop a plastic for gunsights. Instead he discovered cyanoacrylates otherwise known as Superglue. It's been sticking things and people together since 1952. Harry is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.
Dermabond's great but really expensive; I use 3M Vetbond which comes in a resealable bottle good for about 20 little cuts for about $14. It's meant for animals, but hey, aren't people animals?
Here's a good article on using cyanoacrylates for wound closure.
posted by nicwolff at 10:41 AM on April 30, 2004
Here's a good article on using cyanoacrylates for wound closure.
posted by nicwolff at 10:41 AM on April 30, 2004
Serendipity part deux.
A foresenic technician let Superglue get too close to a heat source and discovered a way to lift latent prints from surfaces that before were considered too difficult with other methods.
posted by karmaville at 11:10 AM on April 30, 2004
A foresenic technician let Superglue get too close to a heat source and discovered a way to lift latent prints from surfaces that before were considered too difficult with other methods.
posted by karmaville at 11:10 AM on April 30, 2004
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posted by Glibaudio at 7:13 AM on April 30, 2004