If your child enjoyed making fluffy slime, they’ll love exploring and experimenting with our Science Expeditions subscription! Or shop our STEM kits and products. If you remove stress (holding it in your hands), the slime will flow slowly and ooze like a liquid. If you apply force to slime (slapping it), the stress causes the slime to act like a solid. Slime is a non-Newtonian fluid, which means the way it flows changes under stress.If a hagfish is stressed, it releases a small amount of slime (less than a teaspoon) which instantly expands by 10,000 times! To stay safe at night, parrotfish produce mucus cocoons to sleep in. When opossums feel threatened, they play dead and release a smelly mucus to ward off the predator.
Using a measuring spoon, sprinkle your colorant on top. Some animals produce slime as a defense against predators. Step by Step Walkthrough Take your mixing bowl and pour your 4 ounces of glue into it.When slime gets stretched, the polymer chains unfold and straighten out, which is why slime can stretch without breaking. Before slime is stretched out, its polymer chains are all scrunched up. Glue contains flexible chain-like molecules called polymers.If they don’t, start a discussion using the questions below! During this activity, natural questions may come up.
