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Now, researchers in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research have analyzed the proteins in wheat-based glues applied in historic bookbinding to provide insights on their adhesiveness and how they degrade.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

If so, is it the color of the tape that matters, or the make, or the level of adhesiveness?

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016

The Sports & Fitness Industry Assn. oversees the third-party testing of gloves to make sure the products meet but do not exceed specifications for adhesiveness and other qualities.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2015

Expansion of the thoracic cavity also causes the lungs to expand, due to the adhesiveness of the pleural fluid.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

This gives to the wax an elasticity and adhesiveness of such degree that we may now graft trees in cold weather.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association