Slime Research Paper

On Tuesday I went to the Western Illinois University for chemistry day. We started off the day with making slime which was the first thing I learned that day. I had never made slime before so this was new to me and without the directions from the instructor I would of had no idea what I was doing. First you had to take white elmers glue and fill up to the line the had on the beakers they provided for us. Then you got to add food coloring. Unfortunately you could not add the food coloring yourself, which was probably smart because I feel like it would have gotten way out of hand. I chose yellow and red. I thought it would make orange, but it did not. I figured this was because the elmer's glue was white and it turned the glue salmon. Then we put the same measurement of cornstarch in the beakers and stirred with a spoon.

Mine was tough and the the elmer’s glue and the cornstarch were having a hard time combining. The lady that was helping us said we should probably just take out the slime and use are hands to press it together. This was a really disgusting feeling. Mine was still not combining and was more stringy but still not coming together. We then decided to take some paper towels to the slime and see if we could get off the excess liquid. The lady said I put way too much cornstarch in mine and that I just needed to keep pressing mine together. I finally got the slime to stick all together. However it did not look like anyone else's at all. There's looked like slime. Mine looked like a hard type of putty than you couldn't pull apart unless you wanted to never get it back together again. Later on that day I ended up throwing it away because I got so