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Tagged with adhesion physical-chemistry
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Strange occurrence of glue drying
What happened here? I by accident spilled super glue and formed these amazing ridge patterns. Any ideas what caused this to happen?
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What makes silicone sticky?
I've read from 3M's Adhesion Science articles and this StackExchange question that there are three types of adhesion: chemical, physical, and electrostatic.
I'm curious about what makes silicone ...
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What type of adhesion is at play when dust is collected by water
A washing tower that rains water down through a polluted gas will take up the particulates in the gas. They do this through adhesion, I'm pretty sure.
Now, there's apparently 5 types of adhesion:
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When putting water on two pieces of paper they bond. Is that due to van der Waals bonds?
I've been wondering what keeps two pieces of wet paper together when in contact. Does water have any adhesive property? Or does it decompose something from the paper and creates some kind of glue? I ...
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