Is the glue recipe in "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" factually based? Here's the quote from the movie:
"Ordinarily when you make glue first you need to thermoset your resin and then after it cools you have to mix in a Poxide which is really just a fancy schmancy name for any simple oxygenated adhesive, right? And then I thought maybe, just maybe, you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process and it turns out I was right."
2006-06-25 09:10:37 · 4 answers · asked by super_shlee 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
You really answered your own question -- "Movie Science".
Movie makers rarely consult with real scientists when making your average movie, because incorporating reality would ruin their concept of how things should go.
2006-06-25 15:33:16 · answer #1 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds right. The viscosity being the thickness of the glue before setting, would need to be thickened so that it would stay on the back of Post-Its.
What your forgetting however is that irregardless of whether the recipe is true or not is not actually important. What is important is the storyline . . . : ) but most likely they got ahold of someone in the business of making Post-Its and had them fact check this part. It would be the usual way its done.
2006-06-25 16:21:21 · answer #2 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really; it's a lot of creative verbiage with no relation to how adhesives really work.
2006-06-25 20:04:00 · answer #3 · answered by Keith P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should you trust the answer of a person who uses the word "irregardless"?
2006-06-25 17:11:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋