Super Glue Science
I know there are chemists on this site because I get corrected by them with uncomfortable frequency. But that's another story.
My question is about super glue and closed cell foam.
The background of the question starts with mee sitting in a 2006 tying show making foam flies with super glue. [See http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern6910.html for the pattern I was tying]. Sitting next to me was a PhD chemist who explained that the reason super glue worked so well was that it caused a chemical reaction with the surface molecules of the closed cell foam -- and then he went into chemistry that lost me completely. Like I said, that's another story. Anyway, I had been using super glue for closed cell foam for quite a while and knew what it did, just not why.
So...here's the question.
What is the chemical reaction between super glue and closed cell foam
and...is it as permanent as it seems?
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