Courtney Act

Changing genders is not a quick process... it takes about two hours to put on all the make-up and the lashes, and the hair, and the corsets, and the seven kinds of adhesives that work in tandem on my body to keep things up and keep things down.

Australian Entertainer

Mark Frauenfelder

The Cat Dancer is a 30-inch piece of wire with some little cardboard cylinders on the end. My cats go crazy for it. I stuck it on the wall with the adhesive mount, but I ended up taking it off so I could hold it and play directly with my cats.

American Journalist

Rose McIver

Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.

New Zealander Actress

Alex Haley

If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.

American Novelist

Noel Fielding

When I was at art college, a can of Spray Mount adhesive cost £12: £2 more than my weekly food bill.

English Comedian

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

American Composer

David Rakoff

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

Canadian Writer

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Canadian Author

Describes surfaces or items needing to adhere without additional support.

Sticky Context

Refers to products designed for joining or sealing items, like tapes or labels.

Common Uses

Specifies the duration of the adhesive effect, can be long-lasting or for a short period.

Temporary vs Permanent

Adhesives vary in strength; some are used in industrial settings while others are for home use.

Industrial vs Home

Not all adhesives work on every material; some are specific to wood, metal, or plastic.

Surface Compatibility

Some adhesives contain solvents that evaporate as they dry, while others do not.

Solvent Presence

 the coast behind it is going to be protected. So they're really quite influential. If you've been to any rocky beach pretty much anywhere in the world, you're probably familiar with what barnacles look like. And so what these animals do - and there's many others, these are just three of them - is they make adhesives,

What sticky sea...

 and sealing the gap. But adhesive chemicals often behave very differently from concrete, and over time, these adhesives can lead to even worse cracks. So perhaps the best way to heal large cracks is to give concrete the tools to help itself. Scientists have discovered that some bacteria and fungi

What if cracks in...

 The problem was, the way we manufactured these systems was very inefficient, had low yield and was very error-prone. In addition, as we talked to some of the nurses in the hospital, they encouraged us to make sure that our electronics worked with typical medical adhesives

A temporary tattoo that...

 duct tape would be better. Engineers weigh similar, if less absurd, factors all the time. Choosing the right glue to withstand the heat inside an engine is a matter of life and death. And though the strength of duct tape’s adhesive bonds

Which is stronger: Glue...

 results were astonishing they discovered that theoretically a gecko walking upside down on the ceiling could support a backpack weighing 90 pounds the huge adhesive strength comes from the structure of tiny velvety hairs on

Sticky Gecko Feet PIPE...

 carbon and fluorine interact so strongly that the normal, intermolecular forces that help substances stick to each other don't stand a chance. Even the famously adhesive feet of geckos usually can't get a grip. But wait!

Why doesn’t anything...

 This pull is aided by a fundamental property of water called capillary action. In narrow tubes, the attraction between water molecules and the adhesive forces between the water and its environment can beat out gravity.

How tall can a tree...

 except it was around way before this guy, millions of years before. So don't stop at the discovery, next imagine the possible uses for society. Here is the first human supported by a gecko-inspired adhesive.

Curiosity, discovery and...

 two pistols that fire sticky ropes up to a foot long it's like silly string of death the substance then paralyzes the prey with fast-drying adhesive the worm also has a knife in its jaw and uses it to slice

This Worm Uses a "Silly...

 Today we can manufacture structures that mimic the hairs of a gecko's foot. The result, a four-by-four-inch artificial nano-gecko adhesive. can support a static load