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Bone Glue
(redirected from animal glue)

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Bone Glue
A synthetic carbonated hydroxyapatite with a carbonate ion content similar to bone mineral. This calcium/phosphate goo hardens into dahllite 5 minutes post mixing, acting as ‘instant bone’ for fractures

bone glue
Orthopedics A calcium/phosphate goo that hardens into dahllite 5 mins post mixing, acting as 'instant bone' for fractures. See Dahllite.


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The active ingredient PCMC is also approved by the FDA for use as a preservative composent of adhesives intended for use in packaging, transporting, or holding food; and as a preservative in the manufacture of animal glue intended for use in packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food.
The condition of the seventeenth-century binding was very poor: the sewing had broken down, the animal glue on the spine had become brittle, the textblock was loose and unstable and the spine leather friable with large pieces lost.
The researchers thought animal glue might have served as a binder, but all of the data pointed to egg instead.
 
 
 
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