The demand for liquid glues is mainly due to the disadvantages--the necessity of dissolving and using while hot--of ordinary glue.
Glues may be most conveniently classified according to their sources: bone glue, skin glue and fish glue; these may be regarded severally as impure forms of bone gelatin, skin gelatin and isinglass.
Glues and gelatins merge into one another by imperceptible degrees.
Gum arabic and gum tragacanth have the disadvantage that they are more liable to attract mites and are more brittle, so that they do not hold specimens as well as some of the liquid glues that are on the market.
Those glues which are readily soluble in cold or lukewarm water are perhaps more convenient than those which require alcohol or chloroform for dissolving.
Next, she glues immediately round the centre five or six small concentric circles, distant about half a line from each other, and then four or five larger ones, each separated by a space of half an inch or more.
Flying round the animal, she curiously poises her body for an instant while she glues a single egg to one of the hairs of his skin, and repeats this process until she has fixed in a similar way many hundred eggs.
These last serve as a sort of temporary scaffolding to walk over, and to keep the radii properly stretched while she glues to them the concentric circles that are to remain, which she now proceeds to construct.
These grains sheglues together with her viscid saliva into masses the size of small shot, and transports by means of her jaws to the site of her castle[765].
Then stepping across and conducting the thread with one of her hind feet, she glues it with her spinners to the point in the adjoining radius to which it is to be fixed.
The weaving spider which is found in houses, having selected some corner for the site of her web, and determined its extent, presses her spinners against one of the walls, and thus gluesto it one end of her thread.
Mr. Clark, however, is of opinion that the Oestrus does not pierce the skin of the animal, but only glues its eggs to it.
These Glues are used in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington for all its works of mounting specimens, by the Government Arsenals and Department Buildings, by the Pullman Palace Car Co.
In other cases there is a free secretion of viscid matter, which often glues the eyelids together.
On a board the process is to cover the space required with a fine spinning that gluesfirmly to the wood.
A moth in a natural location glues her eggs, often one at a time, on the under or upper side of leaves.
The mollusc gluesitself to the rocks at the bottom of the sea, and, as it can only move very slowly, the Malay divers seize it readily.
Then stepping across and conducting the thread with one of its hind legs, it glues it with its spinners to the point in the adjoining radius to which it is to be fixed.
These last serve as a sort of temporary scaffolding to walk over, and to keep the radii properly stretched while it glues to them the concentric circles that are to remain, which it now proceeds to construct.
Equally innumerable are the inventions, recipes, and patents for making glues that shall remain liquid.
Acid gelatines and glues may have wooden plates, but "acid-proof" alloys are sometimes used to make them.
Many special glues and cements are made from commercial glue, according to the purpose required.
These curious bugs give forth a resinous substance that envelops the eggs and glues them to the twigs whose juices the bug sucks out.
The best and clearest bone glues are obtained by leaching the bones with dilute acid which dissolves out the lime salts and leaves the gelatinous matters.
He frequently makes cuts into them himself, and then glues them up, thus making them doubly strong.
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