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Super Glue

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Glenn Cunningham

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Anybody know the effects on fish that eat super glue?

Would you let your dog or cat eat pellets that have super glue on them :confused:
 
The Chairman on Sunday

Subject: Hypochondriacs and the Worried Well



I wouldn't worry too much about superglue and its effect on fish - getting quantities on oneself is much more of a consideration.

However, we have found here in The Hamsters that our Golden Beauties (Boris, Barb, Traveller etc to you chaps, I understand) were becoming extremely agitated by the presence of scantily clad Lady Guides at the waterside, running themselves ashore and beating their heads against terra firma until dead or unconcho.

We have addressed the problem by fitting all Golden Beauties in our stretches with dark glasses: what the fishy eye doesn't see the fishy heart doesn't grieve.


As ever,

B.B.
 
Hmm glass! I heard that very old windows are thicker at the bottom than the top due to glass acting under the influence of gravity. This adds to the liquid debate...
 
Thats been disproven

Behavior of antique glass

The observation that old windows are sometimes found to be thicker at the bottom than at the top is often offered as supporting evidence for the view that glass flows over a timescale of centuries. The assumption being that the glass was once uniform, but has flowed to its new shape, which is a property of liquid.[36] However, this assumption is incorrect; glass does not flow. The reason for the observation is that in the past, when panes of glass were commonly made by glassblowers, the technique used was to spin molten glass so as to create a round, mostly flat and even plate (the crown glass process, described above). This plate was then cut to fit a window. The pieces were not, however, absolutely flat; the edges of the disk became thicker as the glass spun. When installed in a window frame, the glass would be placed thicker side down both for the sake of stability and to prevent water accumulating in the lead cames at the bottom of the window.[37] Occasionally such glass has been found thinner side down or thicker on either side of the window's edge, the result of carelessness during installation.[38]

Mass production of glass window panes in the early twentieth century caused a similar effect. In glass factories, molten glass was poured onto a large cooling table and allowed to spread. The resulting glass is thicker at the location of the pour, located at the center of the large sheet. These sheets were cut into smaller window panes with nonuniform thickness, typically with the location of the pour centred in one of the panes (known as "bull's-eyes") for decorative effect. Modern glass intended for windows is produced as float glass and is very uniform in thickness.

Several other points can be considered which contradict the "cathedral glass flow" theory:

* Writing in the American Journal of Physics, physicist Edgar D. Zanotto states "...the predicted relaxation time for GeO2 at room temperature is 1032 years. Hence, the relaxation period (characteristic flow time) of cathedral glasses would be even longer."[39] (1032 years is many times longer than the estimated age of the Universe.)
* If medieval glass has flowed perceptibly, then ancient Roman and Egyptian objects should have flowed proportionately more — but this is not observed. Similarly, prehistoric obsidian blades should have lost their edge; this is not observed either (although obsidian may have a different viscosity from window glass).[30]
* If glass flows at a rate that allows changes to be seen with the naked eye after centuries, then the effect should be noticeable in antique telescopes. Any slight deformation in the antique telescopic lenses would lead to a dramatic decrease in optical performance, a phenomenon that is not observed.[30]
* There are many examples of centuries-old glass shelving which has not bent, even though it is under much higher stress from gravitational loads than vertical window glass.

Back to super glue:

Maybe it just passes through the fish with no harm.
On nearly all bottles it does say "If swallowed seek medical advice immediately"
Seems that most fishermen arn't to bothered about it, so it must be safe.
 
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