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> > "My youngest told me what oobleck is the other day. It is something which can behave like a solid or a liquid. I couldn't believe my seven year old taught me that."

≥ That sounds exactly like the kind of thing that you might learn from a seven-year-old.

Is it just me, or is it also wrong? Oobleck is some YouTuber word that attracts child viewers, before that it was called a non-newtonian liquid.




The name is a reference to the Dr. Seuss book "Bartholomew and the Oobleck", published in 1949. I remember reading it as a child, probably around the same time I mixed up a batch of the non-newtonian cornstarch mixture, though I can't remember whether the name had become associated with the substance at that time or whether we called it something else. In any case, I think it is likely that the current use of "oobleck" predates the existence of YouTube.




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