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Staples are made of thin metal wire. For consumer use, it is clipped, formed and then a light glue keeps the staple strip together before selling it to you. In publishing and high speed printing, it is kept as a spool of wire and is clipped and formed in the printer or finishing machine just as it is being stapled into the paper.
Surgical staples, made of medical-grade titanium and stainless steel, were used as a quicker alternative to sutures in wound closures from the 1960s through the 1990s. Clips and adhesives have, as of 2014, largely supplanted the use of surgical staples in connecting and closing tissue. Learn more about Office Supplies.