Superglue will not stick to the inside of its tube because the tube contains oxygen in the form of air but excludes water.
Oxygen inhibits whereas water catalyses.
This explains why the best join between two surfaces is made using a thin glue line. An excess thickness of glue will lead to a retarded cure. This moisture sensitivity explains two things. Wetherby West Yorkshire a. The Loctite company in the US discovered the inhibition by oxygen of the otherwise rapid polymerisation of cyano-acrylate.