Seachem Reef Glue Chemical Reaction?

[Frogspon]

Can anyone take a stab at what happened here?

Set a tube sachem reef glue over a piece of foil (pulled off a recently opened bottle of Seachem's Reef Fusion 2)

I let the superglue that overflowed sit on that piece of foil, which was on top of a black piece of corrugated plastic.

This morning, as you can see in the picture, the black is discolored all around the foil with a white residue. The white buffs off the plastic with a little elbow grease.

Any idea at what happened here?

 

[P-Dub]

That is what cyanoacrylate does.

 

[MaxTremors]

Can anyone take a stab at what happened here?

Set a tube sachem reef glue over a piece of foil (pulled off a recently opened bottle of Seachem's Reef Fusion 2)

I let the superglue that overflowed sit on that piece of foil, which was on top of a black piece of corrugated plastic.

This morning, as you can see in the picture, the black is discolored all around the foil with a white residue. The white buffs off the plastic with a little elbow grease.

Any idea at what happened here?

It’s from the fumes. They use cyanoacrylate in enclosed spaces to get fingerprints off hard to reach places or where the dust/tape won’t work. The effect is more pronounced if a little bit of heat is applied (even just slightly over ambient temperature).

 

[Frogspon]

It’s from the fumes. They use cyanoacrylate in enclosed spaces to get fingerprints off hard to reach places or where the dust/tape won’t work. The effect is more pronounced if a little bit of heat is applied (even just slightly over ambient temperature).

That is what cyanoacrylate does.

Crazy. Thanks. I guess I just figured the fumes would rise up, and that a tiny glob wouldn't produce that much off-gas.

It looks like the fumes are so dense they just floated around in a circle on the plastic.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

I had that happen to my stuff too....