http://sciencecafe.org/content/2008/12/22/make-your-own-flubber/ Fun science for everyone Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:57:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://sciencecafe.org/content/2008/12/22/make-your-own-flubber/comment-page-1/#comment-57042 Carl Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:57:13 +0000 http://sciencecafe.org/blog/?p=176#comment-57042 I love the little tubs of "Nate's Flubber", very cool. You remind me that I should update my posting regarding the relatively low level of toxicity of borax relative to other substances. -Carl I love the little tubs of “Nate’s Flubber”, very cool. You remind me that I should update my posting regarding the relatively low level of toxicity of borax relative to other substances.
-Carl

]]> http://sciencecafe.org/content/2008/12/22/make-your-own-flubber/comment-page-1/#comment-57030 Flubber Recipe Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:44:54 +0000 http://sciencecafe.org/blog/?p=176#comment-57030 [...] Because of the science behind this recipe, the borax combines with the PVA in the glue and makes a polymer. You could do nothing at this point and it would turn to flubber after a while. But what fun would [...] [...] Because of the science behind this recipe, the borax combines with the PVA in the glue and makes a polymer. You could do nothing at this point and it would turn to flubber after a while. But what fun would [...]

]]> http://sciencecafe.org/content/2008/12/22/make-your-own-flubber/comment-page-1/#comment-5287 Slimed! « Remarkably Domestic Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:50:22 +0000 http://sciencecafe.org/blog/?p=176#comment-5287 [...] it’s a polymer and a Maxwell solid, so it’s all sciency and [...] [...] it’s a polymer and a Maxwell solid, so it’s all sciency and [...]

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