Super-strong glue

Usage examples of epoxy.

The tomb exhaled the scent of dry stone, epoxy glue, dust, and warm electronics.

Rather than tents, we would shelter the stormy nights in fiberglass huts, which the combat engineers would glue together with an epoxy that sprayed out as liquid but set up instantaneously even at zero Fahrenheit.

Anyone aboard would kill for strawberries, but we had enough epoxy to glue together the city of Tallahassee.

Fifty feet away, combat engineers laid fiberglass panels on rock and assembled epoxy sprayers to glue them into shelters.

The epoxy that we had too much of because some idiot computer clerk sent it instead of fruit.

The epoxy was harder than the granite itself, so they had no choice but to shatter the mosaic and let the shards tumble down into the river.

He tried to open his eyes and see who was calling, but the lids were epoxied shut.

First the epoxy resin of the outer layer of paint, then the urethane intermediate coating, and the inorganic zinc primer, all those chemicals disassociated from their complex molecular structure and dissolved into atomic nuclei and electrons.

They swept the estate for wireline taps, wireless taps, frequency hoppers, powerline modulators, burst transmitters, laser links, microwave flood resonators and every other piece of privacy invasion hardware right down for looking for cockroaches with microvocodor chips epoxied to their shells.

They were made by the builder caste, the largest of all the vassals, who chewed soil and mixed it with an epoxy chemical extravasated in their mouth ducts, producing a strong cement.

We put the signs up in prominent places, bolted them down with lag screws, epoxied those screws into place and then chopped the heads off.

Elliott took us to a softly lit space set with lounging bags and a battered-looking access terminal on a hinged arm epoxied to the wall of the bubble.

What are the optimal coatings for protection against atomic oxygen and can they be coated onto carbon nanotubes and epoxy?

I knew I would sit there and endure until the catalogue of beltings and poundings had dissolved into incoherence, into tears, into hysteria, and then I would flow Into the cracks in the kid's soul like epoxy glue and make him seem whole for a while .

The ground-to-space "beanstalk" space-elevator system and the electromagnetic launcher discussed in the story are two of the most dramatic examples, but, like fiberglass and graphite epoxy composites, they would find their way into everything from aircraft to sports equipment.