"*Mixing cornstarch and water creates a fluid called oobleck that has some pretty bizarre properties. Oobleck is a shear-thickening, non-Newtonian fluid, which means its viscosity increases when you try to deform it with a shearing, or sliding, force. But as the Backyard Scientist demonstrates above, striking oobleck with a solid object produces some spectacular and very non-fluid-like results. The golf ball’s impact blows the oobleck into pieces that look more like solid chunks than liquid droplets. This solid-like behavior occurs because the impact jams the suspended cornstarch particles together, creating a solidification front that travels ahead of the golf ball. Imagine how a snow plow pushes a denser region of snow ahead of it as it drives; the cornstarch behaves similarly but only in a region near the impact. Once that impact force dissipates, the particles unjam and the mixture responds fluidly again. (Image credit: The Backyard Scientist, source; research credit: S. Waitukaitis and H. Jaeger, pdf)*":http://fuckyeahfluiddynamics.tumblr.com/post/143533850879/mixing-cornstarch-and-water-creates-a-fluid-called

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Mixing cornstarch and water creates a fluid called oobleck that has some pretty bizarre properties. Oobleck is a shear-thickening, non-Newtonian fluid, which means its viscosity increases when you try to deform it with a shearing, or sliding, force. But as the Backyard Scientist demonstrates above, striking oobleck with a solid object produces some spectacular and very non-fluid-like results. The golf ball’s impact blows the oobleck into pieces that look more like solid chunks than liquid droplets. This solid-like behavior occurs because the impact jams the suspended cornstarch particles together, creating a solidification front that travels ahead of the golf ball. Imagine how a snow plow pushes a denser region of snow ahead of it as it drives; the cornstarch behaves similarly but only in a region near the impact. Once that impact force dissipates, the particles unjam and the mixture responds fluidly again. (Image credit: The Backyard Scientist, source; research credit: S. Waitukaitis and H. Jaeger, pdf)

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"*Mixing cornstarch and water creates a fluid called oobleck that has some pretty bizarre properties. Oobleck is a shear-thickening, non-Newtonian fluid, which means its viscosity increases when you try to deform it with a shearing, or sliding, force. But as the Backyard Scientist demonstrates above, striking oobleck with a solid object produces some spectacular and very non-fluid-like results. The golf ball’s impact blows the oobleck into pieces that look more like solid chunks than liquid droplets. This solid-like behavior occurs because the impact jams the suspended cornstarch particles together, creating a solidification front that travels ahead of the golf ball. Imagine how a snow plow pushes a denser region of snow ahead of it as it drives; the cornstarch behaves similarly but only in a region near the impact. Once that impact force dissipates, the particles unjam and the mixture responds fluidly again. (Image credit: The Backyard Scientist, source; research credit: S. Waitukaitis and H. Jaeger, pdf)*":http://fuckyeahfluiddynamics.tumblr.com/post/143533850879/mixing-cornstarch-and-water-creates-a-fluid-called

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