On 9/7/2010 8:29 PM, Bill Fritz wrote: > The inventor of cyanoacrylates, Harry Coover </wiki/Harry_Coover>, > said in 1966 that a superglue spray was used in the Vietnam War > </wiki/Vietnam_war> to retard bleeding in wounded soldiers until they > could be brought to a hospital. It's very useful. I've heard that dentists use it for small cuts because bandaids worry their patients. As for the sterility problem, using it for a deep cut, that's why we have immune systems. Regular stitches also pose an infection risk, even using sterile sutures. By the way, in case people forgot what I wrote in the Journal about it, if you mix CA glue with a water-based glue, the resulting bond is so much stronger than CA alone that you can truly glue yourself to yourself in a way which requires acetone and a lot of patience and determination to reverse. Don't ask me how I know ... Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100907/d6cbf70a/attachment.htm>
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