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Subject: Why does P.V.A glue and liquid tempura paint mix together to form slime ?

Date: Tue Jul 22 21:37:18 2003
Posted by Carea
Grade level: K-3 School: Pirimai Kindergarten
City: Napier State/Province: No state entered. Country: New Zealand
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 1058927838.Ch
Message:

I am 3.5 years old, and for many months have been mixing colours together, but 
today I mixed P.V.A and paint together and an amazing thing happened.  I can no 
longer paint with this, I tipped it out on the table, and found it was a great 
blob of slime and I could play with it without it sticking to my fingers.  The 
other children at kindergarten loved playing with it too and said I'd made 
slime.  How did this happen?


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