38 Oobleck Experiments

Brian N. Siegelwax
16 min readApr 23, 2021

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Having Fun With Everyone’s Favorite Non-Newtonian Fluid

I had never heard of oobleck, not even from Dr. Seuss, until I bought a chemistry book for my pre-teen that mentioned the sometimes-liquid and sometimes-solid properties of a mixture of cornstarch and water. We learned together, during homeschooling, that this is one type of non-Newtonian fluid, which is to say a fluid that does not…

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