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Binding agent
Answer for the clue "Binding agent ", 8 letters:
fixative
Alternative clues for the word fixative
- Artist's agent rejected one duty in five
- A compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study
- Substance used to protect or stabilize
- A varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging
- Poligrip, e.g
- Chemical substance used in a darkroom
Word definitions for fixative in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A fixative is a stabilizing or preservative agent: Fixative (drawing) , a liquid usually sprayed over a finished piece of artwork to better preserve it and prevent smudging Fixation (histology) , a solution used to preserve or harden fresh tissue of cell ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fixative \Fix"a*tive\, n. That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It then glues these thin twigs to a wall using its own saliva as a fixative .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Serving to fix or bind. n. A substance that fixes, protects, or preserves.
Usage examples of fixative.
You see, ambergris is the most effective odor fixative that has ever been found.
Although she respects the histologist, whose devotion is to the minuscule structures of tissues and the tales their cells can tell, she has never been able to comprehend sitting inside a tiny lab day in and day out, surrounded by sections of heart, lung, liver, brain and other organs, and injuries and stigmata of diseases that are cut into sections and turn rubbery inside bottles of a fixative such as formalin.
The British pathologist, Sir Gordon Roy Cameron, who conducted one of these endeavors, a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, later knighted for his contributions to the field, observed that the 1947 study had employed formalin as a fixative agent for the tissues, which is not suitable for cytological studies on account of its tendency to produce artifacts of precisely the kind that had been identified as hyperplasia nodules.
Indio peeled off his skin plast and tossed it into the can next while Tiny poured a solvent on a rag and wiped it across his scalp and chin, dissolving the fixative that glued the hair and beard to his skin.
The trailer was made of a magnesium-based alloy, and the polymer fixative would make what was in effect a ceramic bond between the locking bar and the trailer, so that the door would be stuck.
So Nadia spent time visiting on-screen with a group designing new robot miners that would minimally disrupt the surface, or talking to a group working on dust fixatives that might be sprayed or grown over the surface, “thin fast pavements” as they called them.
So Nadia spent time visiting on-screen with a group designing new robot miners that would minimally disrupt the surface, or talking to a group working on dust fixatives that might be sprayed or grown over the surface, "thin fast pavements" as they called them.
Claude was well aware of the previous importance to the perfume industry of ambergris, a substance secreted by temporarily infirm whales, but he was convinced that, petrochemical and coal tar fixatives were completely adequate substitutes.
The Galeshir swamps yield a number of medicinal herbs that cannot be found elsewhere, as well as the swamp kepher from whose scent glands come the base fixatives for the much-sought Galeshir perfumes.
So Nadia spent time visiting on-screen with a group designing new robot miners that would minimally disrupt the surface, or talking to a group working on dust fixatives that might be sprayed or grown over the surface, “.
There was a small tube of dental fixative in the box but the appliance fit so well, I didn't seem to need any kind of adhesive.