• Question: what do you think of slime?

    Asked by anon-186923 to David on 9 Nov 2018.
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      David Ho answered on 9 Nov 2018:


      I think slime’s amazing! If you mix cornstarch and water you can make a slime that bounces if you hit it hard but acts like a liquid when you move your hand through it slowly. It’s one of the easiest (and messiest) science experiments you can do at home. When I got to university I learnt that the proper name for a material like that is a “non-Newtonian fluid”…the mathematical equations behind them are very interesting too!

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