alt Hacker News>Sealing Paper Packaging Without Adhesives
>"“By irradiating the paper with a CO laser, we create refusible, sugar-like reaction products that we use instead of the synthetic materials or adhesives that would otherwise be required to seal the paper by the heat sealing process. In this way, we are essentially producing our own adhesive in the form of the cleavage products,”
So y'all are sealing paper packagin without adhesives by using adhesives. Brilliant.
Would it really have been so bad to have included the word "Adding" in the title? Because now that you plainly admit that you are using an adhesive I feel as if you've deliberately lied to farm attention. And if you'll lie for attention...well, then, what else will you lie for?
It's a really neat idea. Using lasers to melt the lignans and such...but why not just lean in to that? "Sealing Paper Packaging with Lasers!" Or "Sealing Envelopes with Lasers" or idk...
It's just...you are using an adhesive while claiming not to. It is an adhesive that you manufacture in-situ and without adding any other chemicals, but it is in fact an adhesive. Like, if I said I could start a fire without a fire starter, but then used a bow drill, you'd roll your eyes, right? Because a bow drill is obviously a fire starter.
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dont be like that. so semantic youre missing the point so you can dote on yourself.
I feel like its pretty obvious they mean an adhesive in the sense of an additional substance or agent. Just because they use a laser to modify the paper structure to effectively become sticky, doesnt detract at all from the goal and point of the title. that no additional products/agent/glues were needed.
absolutely missing the point of it all just to jerk your ego off.
this is so prevalent on HH that it’s normalized and most the cerebral bozos cant read between lines beyond their self righteous vantage.