How to Make Magnetic Slime

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This week on Reactions our writer, Sam, skips work to make some slime! Check it out to learn how you, too, can use easy-to-get items to make magnetic and colored slime.


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Credits:
Producer: Andrew Sobey
Writer: Samantha Jones, PhD
Scientific Consultants: Alicia McGeachy, PhD, Michelle Boucher, PhD, Brianne Raccor, PhD
Executive Producer: George Zaidan
Production Manager: Hilary Hudson

Music:
Simple Pleasures
Bob Bradley & Christopher Shaun Wonfor

Sources:
ACS video on slime
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/adventures-in-chemistry/experiments/slime.html

Where people go wrong making slime
http://sustainable-nano.com/2018/07/20/slime-time/#refs

C&EN Periodic Graphic with Compound Chemistry
https://cen.acs.org/education/Periodic-Graphics-chemistry-slime/96/i25

PVA
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128134474000029

Ferromagnetism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080965321013029

Borax
https://chem.libretexts.org/Under_Construction/Walker/Chemicals/Substance%3AB/Borax

Polymer science
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/progress-in-polymer-science


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