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Sadie Johnson
Mrs.Stevens
Life Science
31 January 2018
One day I was making two different types of slime, glitter glue slime and regular glue
slime. They both had the same texture, but each slime felt a little when I would pull and stretch
them. That’s when I realized that one of them had to be streachier. So I tested it out to see which
one, the glitter glue slime, or the regular glue slime is stretchier. I hypothesized that if I used
There are several steps to making slime. You first get a bowl and put glue in it. You can
also add food coloring, but that is optional. Then you take liquid starch also known as Sta-Flo
and add it to the bowl with glue. The glue and Sta-Flo will combine together if you mix it. It will
start to clump up. Once you feel like you can hold the slime, start to play with it and knead it
until it is not sticky anymore. Once you are done playing with it, keep it in a sealed container to
Amorphous and crystalline solids are two different things. Crystalline solids have an
arrangement of atoms and molecules that are repetitive and are in a regular formation. A
molecule of water is an example of a crystalline solid (Crystalline). But atoms do not have an
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ordered atomic structure. Crystalline solids and amorphous solids are the complete opposite.
Glitter glue and regular glue are two different types of glue. They have different
ingredients. Glitter glue has cornstarch, fine salt, hot water, vinegar, and glitter. Regular glue is
a bit different because it has water, cornstarch, light corn syrup, and white vinegar. As you can
see, glitter glue and regular glue are slightly different based on their ingredients (Homemade).
Elasticity is found in objects that have the properties of polymers. If you mix up the
ingredients in polymer, it will make more objects more elastic than other objects. Elmers glue
has polyvinyl in it. Polyvinyl is basically a man made polymer. Borax and Sta-Flo react to
polyvinyl to create acetate with elasticity. If you put too much Sta-Flo or borax in the slime, it
can make it more solid and less liquid. The ratio of Borax or Sta-Flo to glue is important to have
To measure elasticity you need a measuring tape. Take the measuring tape and stretch it
out on the floor as long as it can go. Have a peer go on on end and take the slime and stretch it to
see how far it will go. When the slime eventually breaks, see where it broke and compare that to
where the other slime broke. Then you can record the results (Slime).
Viscosity is the resistance of fluid flow. The more viscous a substance is, the slower it
will flow. A great example of this is water and ketchup. Ketchup is much more viscous than
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water. When Borax or Sta-Flo is added to slime, it becomes more viscous. The more of these
substances one uses, the more viscous it becomes. In order to make really good slime, it is
important to have the right combination so that the viscosity is perfect ( Rohrig )!
I hypothesized that if you use regular glue, then the slime will be stretchier. When I first
started this experiment, I was measuring it and thought that the regular glue slime would have
more elasticity. About halfway through measuring the slimes, the measurements started to
change. I noticed that the glitter glue slime could stretch farther. Then the measurements were
pretty close at the end. I hypothesized that the glitter glue would be less stretchy, but it turns out
that the glitter glue actually caused the slime to be more stretchy! I was wrong.
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Works Cited
chemistry.tutorvista.com/inorganic-chemistry/crystalline-solid.html
http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/am/Amorphous_solid
pagingfunmums.com/2014/01/16/homemade-glitter-glue
“Slime |An Experiment in Elasticity.” Lemon Lime Adventures, LLA Media LLC, 13 Oct. 2014,
lemonlimeadventures.com/lego-slime-experiment-elasticity/
www.homesciencetools.com/learning-center/how-to-make-slime.