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animal glue

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Noun1.animal glue - a protein gelatin obtained by boiling e.g. skins and hoofs of cattle and horsesanimal glue - a protein gelatin obtained by boiling e.g. skins and hoofs of cattle and horses
animal product - a product made from animal material
glue, mucilage, gum - cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive


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The active ingredient PCMC is also approved by the FDA for use as a preservative composent of adhesives intended for use in packaging, transporting, or holding food; and as a preservative in the manufacture of animal glue intended for use in packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food.
The condition of the seventeenth-century binding was very poor: the sewing had broken down, the animal glue on the spine had become brittle, the textblock was loose and unstable and the spine leather friable with large pieces lost.
The researchers thought animal glue might have served as a binder, but all of the data pointed to egg instead.
 
 
 
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