Beautiful Work Physical Properties Of Slime

Tactile activities like slime making are a treat for the senses.

Physical properties of slime. Slime is a non-newtonian fluid You can play around with the quantities of these ingredients in particular the contact lens solution to create slimes with different viscosities. Cross-Linking Poly vinyl alcohol with Sodium Borate Objective. That is a big fancy way of saying slime doesnt follow the general rules we think of when it comes to how liquids behave.

As we stretch the slime in our slime recipe it gets thinner as in it starts to stretch faster and faster as your hands pull apart. Have you ever wondered how fun toys like Silly Putty Gak and Slime are made. The technical explanation is that slime is a fluid that changes its ability to resist deformation according to shear or tensile stress.

In this lab you will begin investigating the physical properties of a rather peculiar substance commonly known as slime. When you stirred your slime tried to rip it apart or poked your finger into it with force the polymers were entangled and it looked like a solid. Viscosity is how fast or slow fluid flows.

The objective of this experiment is to explore the change in physical properties of a polymer as a result of cross-linking. Slime is a non-Newtonian fluid meaning it does not follow Newtons law of viscosity. When these items come together they create a polymer substance that acts like both a solid and a liquid depending on how.

Two clear colorless liquids are mixed and immediately form a gel with interesting physical properties. The result of adding more cross-linking agents to a polymer is considered and another model of cross-linking is viewed. YES NO Can it be pulled apart without breaking.

Squishy and stretchy things like homemade slime just beg to be touched. A slime is a non-Newtonian fluid. Department of Agriculture Beltsville Maryland.