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Slime is a homemade toy typically created using a combination of water, glue, and borax. Videos of people playing with slime became popular on social media in the mid-2010s, which made it an international trend. A green-colored homemade slime with its characteristics being shown in the picture.
A Feb. 17 video posted by @Madisdawgs, taking part in the trend, reads “how to not care no borax no glue.” It has garnered over 3.8 million views as of Feb. 20.
Flubber (named from the film The Absent-Minded Professor), Glorp, Glurch, or Slime is a rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) with a borate compound. Slime can be made by combining polyvinyl-acetate -based adhesives with borax .
Slime is a toy product manufactured by Mattel, sold in a plastic trash can and introduced in February 1976. [2] It consists of a non-toxic viscous, squishy and oozy green or other color material made primarily from guar gum. [3]
People are ingesting borax. Also known by its chemical name sodium borate decahydrate, borax is a salt typically used to kill ants and boost laundry detergent, among other household cleaning needs ...
Silver-colored Silly Putty. Silly Putty is a toy containing silicone polymers that have unusual physical properties. It can flow like a liquid, bounce and can be stretched or broken depending on the amount of physical stress to which it is subjected.
Borateem, now manufactured by Dial Corporation, is a chlorine-free, color safe bleach powder but it has no borax content. Boraxo , also originally a 20 Mule Team product, was a borax-based powdered hand soap manufactured in the past by Pacific Coast Borax Company, then by US Borax via merger, and finally acquired by Dial. [ 2 ]
It may also be produced in the electrolysis of an aqueous solution containing borax, sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate (potassium dichromate is added to improve yield along with sodium silicate). A copper pipe is used as a cathode and platinum for the anode, the current being 6 amperes at 7 to 8 volts, and the temperature 10 °C. [13]