When a child mixes white school glue with liquid starch, the long polyvinyl acetate chains in the glue tangle around borate ions from the starch and form a stretchy net — the same cross-linking chemistry that makes slime peel off a table in one rubbery sheet instead of a sticky smear.
Pull a fresh batch of homemade slime off the kitchen table and it comes up in one rubbery sheet, leaving the wood almost dry. A minute earlier those same ingredients white school glue, a splash of li… [+9639 chars]
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