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2. Mucilage - Wikipedia

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   Mucilage mixed with water has been used as a glue, especially for bonding paper items such as labels, postage stamps, and envelope flaps. [7] Differing types and varying strengths of mucilage can also be used for other adhesive applications, including gluing labels to metal cans, wood to china, and leather to pasteboard. [ 8 ]

3. Arthropod adhesion - Wikipedia

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   Smooth adhesive pads are found in arboreal possums, which are marsupials that glide between trees. [1] The possum is also capable of using smooth adhesive pads to climb vertically, making use of large toe pads. [1] The pads consist of an epidermal layer of stratified squamous epithelium, with the outer most layer's cells being flattened. [1]

4. Tragacanth - Wikipedia

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   It has traditionally been used as an adhesive in the cigar-rolling process used to secure the cap or "flag" leaf to the finished cigar body. [ 7 ] In the Middle East, and in Turkey in particular, gum tragacanth is used in paper marbling to make size on which to float and shape the pigments, just as carrageenan is used in the West.

5. Adhesive - Wikipedia

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   The adhesive is applied to either one or both of the materials being bonded. The pieces are aligned and pressure is added to aid in adhesion and rid the bond of air bubbles. Common ways of applying an adhesive include brushes, rollers, using films or pellets, spray guns and applicator guns (e.g., caulk gun). All of these can be used manually or ...

6. List of glues - Wikipedia

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   mucilage, agar, algin: Tree gums/resins Balsam (fir) resins, such as Canada balsam, Dammar gum, Gum Arabic (also called acacia gum), Mastic: Latex rubber cement (cow gum) latex, a coagulating plant fluid, also made synthetically latex is dissolved in an organic solvent organic solvent evaporates as it sets solvent may be hazardous; latex is an ...

7. Gou pi gao - Wikipedia

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   Gou Pi Gao can be used to treat primarily muscle and tendon pains, caused by muscle sprains, tears, rheumatism, tendinitis and various other conditions. [4] The adhesive plaster is applied to the area in pain, and left on for 3–5 hours (preferably with heat treatment in order to increase the medicine's effectiveness).