How to pronounce “cyanoacrylate” in English

With a gel cyanoacrylate, the thickeners slow the reaction, giving you enough time to apply and detach objects.

He got a sample of cyanoacrylate and began gluing together anything within reach.

Chemist Harry Coover was working on a compound called cyanoacrylate.

So he prepped the 910 test by smearing cyanoacrylate between two prisms.

Well, ethyl cyanoacrylate is primed to react because it has two double bonds and one triple bond close together.

There's a medical case study where someone got cyanoacrylate all over his hands.

- Coover said it took the right mindset to see cyanoacrylate as a great adhesive.

If he could just solve the stickiness problem, cyanoacrylate could work.

Soon, different additives were devised to change the properties of pure ethyl cyanoacrylate.

It wasn't until 1998 that he saw his dream of a medical glue approved: a 2-octyl cyanoacrylate called Dermabond.

In the 74 years since Coover's accidental discovery, cyanoacrylate has grown to become a $3 billion industry.