Understanding how glue is made and the differences between glue types can help you decide on the best material for your applications.
If you are looking to produce glue of your own, understanding the way it's made will also help you to choose the right glue mixing equipment to suit your needs. Glue is any adhesive that is applied in liquid form and dries hard to hold materials together. Technically, true glues are made from organic compounds like animal collagen.
However, many products marketed as glue are in fact synthetic adhesives made with polyvinyl acetate PVA emulsions. These synthetic adhesives are also sometimes referred to as gums or cements. Other types of adhesives, including epoxy, caulk, and sealant, have many similarities with glue.
However, they are created with specific jobs in mind and have specific additives that provide these task-specific qualities; glue is a more multi-purpose adhesive and thus has a more basic recipe. Early glues were made of collagen harvested from animals. Muscle, bone, sinew and other tissues release collagen when boiled; this collagen is sticky when wet but dries to a hard, water-insoluble substance. Traditionally, horses were the most common source of glue ingredients for many years.
The collagen was sticky and was useful for holding things together. Milk solids, known as casein, and blood albumin can also be used as a basis for glue. Dried serum from cows' blood yields albumin that coagulates clumps together when it is heated and becomes insoluble in water. Fish glue was also made from the heads, bones, and skin of fish, but this glue tended to be too thin and less sticky.
By experimenting, early man discovered that the air bladders of various fish produced a much more satisfactory glue that was white and tasteless. It eventually was named isinglass or ichthocol.
There are three classes of substance that are called glues and that do not contain chemicals, compounds, or high-tech additives; these are bone glue, hide or skin glue, and fish glue. Technically, other sticky substances are adhesives, gums, or cements, although consumers tend to use these terms interchangeably.
Plants have also been used to produce glues collectively called vegetable glues. These materials are dispersible or soluble in water and are usually made from the starches that compose many grains and vegetables. The natural gums include agar, from colloids in marine plants, algin that is derived from seaweed, and gum arabic, an extract of the acacia tree also known as the gum tree. The substance called marine glue is used to caulk seams, but it consists of tar or pitch and is not truly a glue.
The earliest evidence of use of glue can still be observed in the cave paintings made by our Neanderthal ancestors in Lascaux, France. These early artists wanted their work to last and mixed glue with the paint they used to help the colors resist the moisture of the cave walls. Egyptian artifacts unearthed in their tombs show many uses of glues; perhaps the most striking are the veneers and inlays in wood furniture, which was made using glue as early as 3, B.
The Egyptians also used glue to produce papyrus. Greek and Roman artists used glues extensively; mosaic floors and tiled walls and baths are still intact after thousands of years. Furniture-making relies heavily on glues. Although there are many techniques for fastening pieces together, glue is often used either permanently or to align pieces while other connections are put in place. All of the great cabinetmakers from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries used glue in furniture construction, including Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Duncan Phyfe, the Adams brothers, and Sheraton.
The glues used by these cabinet makers were made from animal hides, hooves, and other parts that had been reduced to jelly, then dried.
The jelly was ground into power or flakes. It was remixed with water and heated gently in a glue pot. This product was brown, brittle, hard, and not waterproof.
Yet this glue was the only glue available until World War I. At that time, casein glues made of milk and nitrocellulose glues were first manufactured. In the s, advances in the chemical and plastics industries led to development of a wide range of materials called adhesives and plastic or synthetic resin glues.
Elmer's was a spin-off from the Borden Condensed Milk Company; Elmer the bull was the husband of the Elsie the cow, Borden's uber-popular spokesperson spokesbovine of lore. But don't worry, this glue-and-cow connection is not about sending old cows to the glue factory. In the late s, Borden acquired the Casein Company of America, the leading manufacturer of casein glue, an adhesive made with milk byproducts not cow parts, per se.
In need of a marketing boost, they gave Elmer the job of representing the newly dubbed Elmer's Glue, and the rest is history.
In , the company created Elmer's iconic School Glue, and then Elmer's Glue-All — both of which actually have the same ingredients. These days the Elmer's site is almost entirely a celebration of all things DIY slime.
But a trip to the Wayback Machine answers the question of what's within. Well, kind of:. Interestingly, in the brand launched Elmer's School Glue Naturals. The pourable version is comprised of 99 percent natural ingredients, with the primary ingredient being plant-based, specifically American-grown corn. The glue stick formula is made up of more than 88 percent natural ingredients. No cows required. The easiest homemade glue is a simple flour and water paste.
Start with a half cup of flour and add a little water at a time, stirring until you have a paste consistency. That's it. There are a lot of DIY glue formulas out there that use milk, but if you want a vegan option, here's a good one. It uses sugar, flour, antiseptic mouthwash, vinegar, baking soda, and water. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Kids are fickle and unless Mari really loves horses, she may have already totally forgotten about it.
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