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adhesive

[ad-hee-siv, -ziv] / ædˈhi sɪv, -zɪv /


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Welly’s products include colorful adhesive bandages, first-aid kits and bug-bite relief patches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The French adhesive manufacturing company continues to show improved cost discipline and higher-margin products are contributing more positively, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The system relies on a non destructive, controlled release adhesive that attaches without requiring built in mounting hardware.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

But Hong Kong-based startup PointFit offers a less intrusive alternative using an adhesive patch, whose tiny sensor reads levels of biomarkers like glucose and cortisol from the sweat on users' skin.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Sandy perched on the edge of a straight-backed chair, adjusted his round wire-framed glasses, repaired at the bridge with adhesive tape, across his broken nose, and told about his children.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

Epoxides are important ingredients in adhesives, surface coatings, and epoxy resins used in electronics.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The Duo’s display structure requires a sandwich-like structure of carbon-based films layered with electrodes, high-strength glass, specialized adhesives and a titanium support plate, all of which make it substantially more expensive than pervious models.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The German consumer-goods and adhesives group nudged up its sales-growth guidance for the year after revenue came in ahead of analysts’ estimates, driven by the adhesives business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Safe adhesives, like lash glue, will keep it in place.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Lead and zinc chromates, Prussian blue, ferric oxid, coal-tar colors, and other substances of a harmful nature, have been employed for this purpose, being made to adhere to the beans with adhesives.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers


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