Date of Award

1-1940

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Chemistry

First Advisor

John R. Koch

Abstract

The manufacture and use of glue involves many important industries, and up to recent times we, in America, have lost much by our old "rule of thumb" and traditional methods for testing glues. In recent times much work has been done on a strictly scientific basis to explain the actions of glue from both a colloidal and a physicochemical aspect.

This thesis is concerned in particular with the possibility of coordinating the different properties exhibited by the accepted glue tests so that a definite criterion might be postulated for a high-grade animal glue. This task, however, proved extremely difficult, for there are many factors to consider in this postulation. This can be shown when one notices that a small change in the manufacturing process of a certain animal glue might entirely alter the properties of that glue. Also, the storage, the temperature at which the glue is used, and even the source and the nature of the water with which the glue is made might affect its properties. It is therefore evident why many authors differ on the aforementioned criterion.

The author of this thesis decided, therefore, to run all of the tests under the same conditions when at all possible, and then to attempt to correlate the results.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science

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