| Author | Message | ||
     David Fairhurst |
Dear Curious, While there is no doubt that a chemical reaction is taking place i.e. polymerisation of cyanoacrylate, I can find no definitive answer to your first question. The three possibilities I have come across are: 1. The residue simply acts as a nucleation point for the reaction. 2. One of the constituents(water or chloride ions) acts as a catalyst in the polymerisation reaction. 3. One of the chemicals is a reactant but no source states definitively which constituent is involved. So there you are I can answer one of you questions but not the other. Maybe someone else can be more helpful David @:^) | ||
| Curious |
What latent residue component does cyanoacrylate react with? Is it a chemical reaction? |
