How does super glue glue things?

Chemistry For Your Life · Jun 18, 2026 · 31m

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Be honest. Have you ever glued yourself with super glue? Everyone should accidentally make that mistake at least once, so you can literally feel the impressive stickiness of super glue. Well today, you can learn about the chemistry within super glue, without putting any fingers or other body parts at risk! Let's do this.

References from this episode

Introduction to Polymers R.J. Young and P. A. Lovell

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/superglue/superglueh.htm

https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/cyanoacrylate/6261.article

https://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/86/8624sci5.html…