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Clean surfaces with alcohol for the best adhesive bond.
Apply only a tiny amount of glue to ensure success.
Fill gaps with baking soda to create maximum joint strength.
Super glue -- the chemical name of which is cyanoacrylate, also popularly known as crazy glue -- is truly amazing stuff.
First sold as an adhesive by Loctite in the 1960s, super glue can bond a wide range of materials -- from plastics to wood, glass, porcelain, metal, and even fabric, and yes, human skin.
While super glue did not originally start as a way to close wounds, it was used for this purpose during the Vietnam War in the 1970s and is still employed by doctors and veterinarians worldwide (although I'm certain that most of the time super glue comes off people's skin these days, it's by accident!).
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