Make Rheopectic slime in less than 15 minutes! (It is not Oobleck)

Step 5 The Slime

Thick slime

You can see this step in the following video or keep reading

Take half a spoon of your borax solution and add it to your mucilage solution. Stir. You will notice an immediate change in your mucilage solution: it becomes slimy.

Depending of the texture you want (the one I did is thicker), add more or less borax. If you want an elastic slime, do not add too many borax solution; if you want a thicker slime, add more borax. Try different quantities of borax until you get the texture you want.

Once you are done, take your slime out of the flask and mold it with your hands. It will be wet messy and a little sticky, but the more you mold it, the better it mixes. Its texture improves and it becomes firmer.

It tends to dry, so use a Ziploc bag to store it. Keep it in the refrigerator to extend its shelf life. You can also keep it at room temperature if you want, just keep it well packed.

Translucent, more elastic, and "slimier" slime

Making this kind of slime is basically the same as doing a thick slime. There are only two differences: the borax quantity and the coloring. You add less borax and you have to use food coloring instead of paint to get a translucent slime.

The other difference is that you have to make it in batches. You cannot make it in one batch because you cannot add too much borax. This is a really basic way of controlling the polymerization reaction but it works well.

Here is the video:

Now that you are done, read on to see the explanation of what happened while you play with your slime and learn, among other things, what "rheopectic" means.

Comments

[turbosinaboy]

Good job!! Does anyone knows how to make this putty 'conductive'??

[erfror]

Hey, didn't you say "don't touch it" on the first page? o.O

[gloryhound100]

I love the chocobo songs in the background of your vidios! Of course the slime you have produced in this instructable really is nice also so kudos!