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How to make fluid "climb" up! AMAZING SLIME EXPERIMENT!

Join host Dianna Cowern as she puts her MIT physics degree to the test. With experiments, demonstrations, and cool new discoveries, Physics Girl sheds new light on the fun, adventurous side of physical science.

How to make fluid "climb" up! AMAZING SLIME EXPERIMENT!

Season 3 Episode 27 | 4m 57s | CC

Slime exhibits some crazy unusual properties, like viscoelasticity, because it's a non-newtonian fluid. We can use non-newtonian properties to make the fluid "defy gravity" and climb up a spinning rod. This is called the Weissenberg effect.

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