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- noun A mixture of
cornstarch andwater with unusual physical properties.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just search for "oobleck"-- after the Dr. Seuss book "Bartholomew and the Oobleck".
August night e 2009
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If the kids met the goal Diodate would have a shower of "oobleck," a green starch substance of Dr. Seuss origin.
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• Association for Women in Science: Make some of Dr. Seuss '"oobleck" and learn a little about non-Newtonian fluids.
Fore, right! < 2010
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The video shows what is termed "creeping oobleck", apparently a material made by mixing corn starch with water to create a non-Newtonian fluid.
ianrandalstrock's Journal ianrandalstrock 2009
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I JUST taught oobleck in science class yesterday at camp!
August night e 2009
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The Kid used to make oobleck in preschool and kindergarten but I never knew it was a "non-Newtonian fluid."
August night e 2009
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Another interesting substance is called 'oobleck.'
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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Everything turned a hideous, bright, oobleck green.
Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw 2003
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NPR science correspondent Richard Harris plays with oobleck.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"I realized after a while that cornstarch suspension - oobleck, the kids call it - has this wonderful property that if it's not flowing rapidly, it's a liquid that flows pretty well," Katz says.
NPR Topics: News 2011
toner commented on the word oobleck
2 cups of corn starch
3 drops of green food coloring
enough water to make a thick mixture (about the texture of pancake batter) I usually measure equal amounts of water and corn starch, but mix water in slowly.
Mix all ingredients together. This makes a fun mixture to play with textures. Use different utensils, such as a spatula, bowl, and funnels, to see what form the mixture will take.
January 4, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word oobleck
Oobleck dancing: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9jcA4decA
July 12, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word oobleck
Oh! I remember playing with this stuff when I was in Montessori school--we'd scoop up a little handful of it as a liquid and then sort of tap it to get a sense of it as a solid.
Thank you, Random word feature!
January 6, 2012
Wordplayer commented on the word oobleck
Don't forget oobleck's cousins: glurch and goop
January 6, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word oobleck
What's glurch?
January 6, 2012
Wordplayer commented on the word oobleck
It's like flubber
January 6, 2012
gangerh commented on the word oobleck
glurch is the bit on a G that stops it being a C. So called because it lurches to the left to achieve this.
January 6, 2012
Wordplayer commented on the word oobleck
@gangerh: Hmm...I never heard that definition before. Interesting
January 6, 2012
gangerh commented on the word oobleck
Really, 'layer? It's akin to the strizontal which is the bit at the bottom of a Z that stops it being a 7. So called because it strikes out to the right horizontally to achieve this.
January 6, 2012
Wordplayer commented on the word oobleck
I've also never been called "'layer" before, but that is super interesting. You should start a list of letter parts.
January 7, 2012
gangerh commented on the word oobleck
A strizontal can also be observed on an L, distinguishing it from an I.
January 7, 2012
michaelt42 commented on the word oobleck
I would dearly love to know the name given to the serifs absent from capital I (India) in the type face that you Wordniki are now reading that ARE REMARKABLY INEFFECTIVE in distinguishing cap. I (India) from l.c. l (el). As for the origins of ooblek, perhaps the learned Dr Seuss was playing on French oublier/oblique in view of the strange properties of non-Newtonian fluids, or maybe he was trying to transform Augenblick into a pseudo-Hungarian word, őblik,but changed it further just in case he was misunderstood by his compositors.
March 2, 2012