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Blu Tack was originally white, but following fears that children could mistake it for chewing gum, a blue colouring was added. [ 2 ] In the United Kingdom in March 2008, 20,000 numbered packs of pink Blu Tack were made available, to help raise money for Breast Cancer Campaign, [ 4 ] with 10 pence from each pack going to the charity.
In philately, gum is the substance applied to the back of a stamp to enable it to adhere to a letter or other mailed item. The term is generic, and applies both to traditional types such as gum arabic and to synthetic modern formulations.
The Gum Wall is a brick wall situated beneath Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle, Washington (State), United States. Located on Post Alley near Pike Street , south of the market's main entrance off 1st Avenue, the wall is covered with used chewing gum .
Palaquium gutta. Gutta-percha is a tree of the genus Palaquium in the family Sapotaceae, which is primarily used to create a high-quality latex of the same name. The material is rigid, naturally biologically inert, resilient, electrically nonconductive, and thermoplastic, most commonly sourced from Palaquium gutta; it is a polymer of isoprene which forms a rubber-like elastomer.
Bubblegum Alley is a tourist attraction in downtown San Luis Obispo, California, known for its accumulation of used bubble gum on the walls of an alley. [1] It is a 15-foot (4.6 m) high and 70-foot (21 m) long alley lined with chewed gum left by passers-by.
Eucalyptus dalrympleana, commonly known as mountain gum, mountain white gum, white gum and broad-leaved ribbon gum, [2] is a species of tree that is endemic to southeastern Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, white flowers and cup-shaped, bell-shaped or hemispherical fruit.
A bottle of rubber cement, showing a brush built into its cap and a photo about to be cemented to graph paper. Rubber cement (cow gum in British English) is an adhesive made from elastic polymers (typically latex) mixed in a solvent such as acetone, hexane, heptane or toluene to keep it fluid enough to be used.
Albumin glues (blood glues and egg albumin adhesive, EAA) blood (serum albumin) or eggs: prehistoric Gelatin glues hide glue, including rabbit-skin glue; bone glue, and fish glue including isinglass. Animal connective tissue. and bones hides are acid-treated, neutralized, and repeatedly soaked; the soaking-water is dried into chips hydrolyzed ...