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illuviel ([personal profile] illuviel) wrote in [personal profile] helen99 2009-05-21 07:35 pm (UTC)

Ah, the joys of non-Newtonian fluids. :>

http://www.science-house.org/CO2/activities/polymer/oobleck.html

Oobleck is a rather common substance around my house.

So is the "glurch" mentioned in this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oobleck

though we usually call it homemade silly putty, which is what it behaves similarly to.

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