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Before we start, we need to make sure we have the right basic ideas and language to understand what makes a good, or poor, adhesive system. Be assured that what follows is rather gentle, yet at the end you will be able to understand what's really going on when we stick things together. We take it step by step, with none of the steps being especially difficult.

The trickiest, final, section covers the science of the polymers used as adhesives. The emphasis is on the few important principles (e.g. what polymerization is, what a crosslink is) that anyone can grasp. Readers who dread chemistry need not worry.