Slime
Slime is a viscous and/or mucous substance. Pouring slime (also known as
gunge) on someone is a popular activity on various television shows. In computer games and in fiction, creatures and characters that look like slime or are made of slime are sometimes called "slimes."
Slimes are a type of fungi. See
Slime mould.
A slimy substance (known as
gunge in the
United Kingdom) is sometimes poured over a victim in a game show or charity event, to embarrass the person. The place where gunge is poured is sometimes called a
Gunge Tank. Also
Nickelodeon Studios picked kids to get slimed in the Game Lab part of the studio tour and used the slime on the celebrities on
Figure It Out when they triggered the secret slime action.
The American television network
Nickelodeon uses a similar substance for similar purproses, for example on the programmes
Double Dare/
Super Sloppy Double Dare/
Family Double Dare,
Slime Time Live and
Friday Night Slimetime.
The use of slime in this context was pioneered by the
Canadian television series
You Can't Do That On Television, where Green Slime would pour onto a character's head if they ever uttered the phrase "I don't know".
On the June 19th edition of
World Wrestling Entertainment's
RAW program, the
Spirit Squad called out
D-Generation X, and when
Triple H told them to look up, green slime came down on them.
In 2006, researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, US, patented a device which releases a stream of slime, making pavement very slippery[
1]. It is intended to be used in crowd control.
You can make a mostly harmless though entertaining slimy substance using the following ingredients;
*
borax (available in hardware or convenience stores)
* PVA glue, e.g., white wood glue (available in hardware or convenience stores) based on
polyvinyl acetate.
*
waterCombining the ingredients in the correct order and proportion produces a thick tacky fluid like material. A good external source for detailed quantities & instructions can be found at
www.madsci.orgThe result is an opaque
viscous polymer, damp to touch but very
tactile when squashed between your fingers.
Using polyvinyl alcohol instead of the
glue results in a
transparent slime.
Another formula is:
*
rubbing alcohol (or pure
isopropyl alcohol)
*
polyvinyl alcohol powder
* water
Your slime can be enhanced by adding a small quantity of
food colouring to the mixture.
In order to make slime that is used to slime yourself or others a variety of products can be used including:
*
Oatmeal * Cake Batter
*
Natrasol* Brownie Batter
*
Guar gum(** color can be enhanced by food coloring)
* The slime is harmless (though it could block pipes and drains if disposed in sufficient quantity). Conduct further research if you are worried about the health effects of using
borax or
polyvinyl acetate based products.
You can also make quick slime with
corn flour,
water and Food Colouring. It is Not Proper slime.
Slime of different sorts appear as characters in a variety of video games. These include:
*
Slime Ball*
Dragon Warrior/
Dragon Quest *
Castlevania*
MapleStory*
Glurch*
Oobleck*
YCDTOTV.com Slime Recipes
