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  2. Slime (homemade toy) - Wikipedia

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    Two young girls holding up slime made using glue, baking soda, shaving cream, food coloring, and contact lens solution. Slime is a homemade toy typically created using a combination of water, glue, and borax. Videos of people playing with slime became popular on social media in the mid-2010s, which made it an international trend.

  3. Cyanoacrylate - Wikipedia

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    Cyanoacrylate is used in archery to glue fletching to arrow shafts. Some special fletching glues are primarily cyanoacrylate repackaged in special fletching glue kits. [25] Such tubes often have a long, thin metal nozzle for improved precision in applying the glue to the base of the fletching and to ensure secure bonding to the arrow shaft.

  4. Flubber (material) - Wikipedia

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    Flubber (named from the film The Absent-Minded Professor), Glorp, Glurch, or Slime is a rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) with a borate compound. Slime can be made by combining polyvinyl-acetate -based adhesives with borax .

  5. Self-healing material - Wikipedia

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    When damage occurs in the material from regular use, the tubes also crack and the monomer is released into the cracks. Other tubes containing a hardening agent also crack and mix with the monomer, causing the crack to be healed. [63] There are many things to take into account when introducing hollow tubes into a crystalline structure.

  6. Adhesive - Wikipedia

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    Glue stick – Solid adhesive in a twist or push-up tube; Mucilage – Thick, gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms; Sealant – Substance used to block the passage of fluids through openings; Wood glue – Adhesive made of natural or synthetic raw materials for bonding wood and wood-based materials

  7. Biofilm - Wikipedia

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    Each hamus is a long tube with three hook attachments that are used to attach to each other or to a surface, enabling a community to develop. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum calidifontis produce bundling pili which are homologous to the bacterial TasA filaments, a major component of the extracellular matrix in bacterial ...

  8. Super Elastic Bubble Plastic - Wikipedia

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    It consisted of a tube of viscous plastic substance and a thin straw used to blow semi-solid bubbles. A pea-sized amount of liquid plastic was squeezed from the tube and made into a ball. One end of the straw was then inserted into the ball, and the user would blow into the other end, inflating the plastic into a bubble.

  9. Animal glue - Wikipedia

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    Animal glue in granules. Animal glue is an adhesive that is created by prolonged boiling of animal connective tissue in a process called rendering. [1] In addition to being used as an adhesive, it is used for coating and sizing, in decorative composition ornaments, and as a clarifying agent.