[Captioned via Y Translator] Slime is some cool stuff with a weird texture,
and today, we're going to see what happens
if we try and take all of the water out of it,
and then we'll see what happens if we try
and put the water back in.
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Slime has been entertaining children for years and years
under several different names,
and it's a really cool weird substance.
And it's something that you can also make at home,
which is pretty fun.
But we're curious what would happen
if you took all of the liquid out of this slime.
What would be left?
What would the texture be like then?
Here's the basic idea.
We've got some store-bought slime, and
we'll make some homemade slime.
We're going to try and dehydrate both,
and then see if they can be turned into a powder.
and rehydrate it.
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One cup of water, 1/2 teaspoon of borax...
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Half a cup of water, and 5 ounces of clear glue.
Add a few drops of color.
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Now, I am going to mix everything inside our pitcher
'cause it's gonna hold everything really nicely.
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That's a great color of slime.
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So now, we have these two metal trays,
and this is where we're going to have our slime sit in
as it dehydrates.
So, try and get the purple one out.
Slime!
That's truly delightful.
Look at that.
I wonder if it's going to stick a lot to the tray.
It is largely made of glue after all.
It's kind of cool.
This stuff like seems really thick
and gelatinous and all that.
But if you leave slime out,
if you make homemade slime,
and then you just leave it for like two days,
all of those bubbles will actually just
rise right up out of it.
It takes a long time, but you end up with just
like perfectly clear slime,
until you play with it again, then you get a lot more bubbles
in it all of a sudden.
Now, the green.
Splat.
We certainly have different textures
in our two slimes here.
This green stuff really likes to gather up a lot more.
The purple did an okay job of spreading out.
I don't necessarily need it to be all stretched out,
but I suspect it will dehydrate better
if it is.
More surface area, more liquid can escape more easily.
Those are fantastic colors.
Now, these are going to take a while.
I'm probably going to end up dehydrating them for several days,
and during that time, I'll probably also
take them out.
Maybe flip them over if one side seems
to be completely dry, and the other one doesn't.
I'll probably switch them back and forth a little bit,
but I'll just try and do whatever it takes
to make sure they get a lot of even heat and air to really
dry out completely.
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It's been a few days, and both of our types
of slime have completely dehydrated inside our dehydrator.
They took rather different amounts of time.
Our Green store-bought slime completely dried out
till it was just plasticky and brittle in--
I think it was less than 24 hours.
Our homemade slime, our purple stuff,
this took about twice as long, and I had to flip it over.
This piece actually just kind of came unstuck from the metal,
but it was still softer on one side.
So I'd like flip it over and let it dry out more.
But at this point, I think both
of them are completely dry.
You can see that's very brittle.
Over here, we've just got flakes of it,
and now, we're going to see if we can turn these
into a powder,
and if we can turn them into powder,
can we add water back into them and turn them
back into liquid slime?
So let's take our two different
dried out slimes, which have remarkably
different textures,
and see what we can do to powderize them.
I have a couple of different blenders here.
I've got like a little Magic Bullet, and then
I've got a big old Blendtec because this stuff is
really tough.
But the green stuff is very thin and brittle,
and so I'm pretty sure I can just crush this down,
and put it in our little Magic Bullet size blender,
and that'll just turn it into dust.
So let's start off with that one.
Let's see how well it works.
Let's see if I'm right about how easily it comes apart,
and hopefully, it comes off of the metal nice
and easily as well.
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Definitely does stick to our foil tray a fair amount,
some places.
It's kind of hard to get off of the metal.
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So if I were to try this again, I'd probably try
and find like a Teflon coated pan or something.
See if it slides off of that more easily.
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All right, we've still got a little bit stuck to our tray,
but I think we've done a fairly good job
of getting most of it off.
I'd say we've got at least 75%.
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All right. Our blender, I think has done a pretty
good job of chopping that up, but I want to go even finer
if I can.
I'm gonna throw this in our mortar and pestle.
Neon green powder, in ground up old-fashioned style.
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It's a pretty good powder right there.
Alright.
Got our green ground up.
Let's move on to our purple.
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I think our blender could probably handle these at full-size,
but...
Just going to start by chopping it all down
a little bit smaller.
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It doesn't even land.
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Just like hovering above it.
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Probably fine.
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The lid has some vent holes, and it definitely had some powder
escaping through that.
Okay, that definitely took it down quite a bit
but there's still some fairly large chunks in there.
This is like the consistency of about maybe not flour,
but close.
This is like the consistency of raw sugar.
So I'm going to clean this out, and try blending it even finer
in this blender.
See if this is tough enough to break that up anymore.
Might've done a little.
Definitely don't think it's as fine of a powder.
We'll try putting in the mortar and pestle,
and seeing if that makes it any smaller.
I think this mixture is just sort of like
a flexible enough compound that it doesn't crush very well.
Whereas the other stuff dried into such a rigid plastic.
It is able to turn into dust.
This is more like sand.
Alright.
Let's start out with our purple stuff.
We're going to try just taking a spoonful
of our purple sand here,
and we're going to add little bits of water
and stir it, and see if it
sort of dissolves back in.
It also may take a little while for these larger pieces
to really absorb all the water they've lost,
or maybe it'll never work.
I haven't tried this before, but let's find out.
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We're definitely making a pulp.
Certainly wouldn't call it slime.
I also don't think this is enough water.
I'm not sure what it's going to do,
but given the ratio of what this was
before it started,
and what it is now, I think this is going
to be too little water for it to properly
absorb everything.
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This is forming into sort of like a gelatinous sand texture instead
of a regular sand texture.
Kinda want just let that one sit,
and then I'll get another cup for the green powder.
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Green powder.
Static electricity that makes it stick to the walls
in some spots.
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Let's add a little bit more water.
See how that goes.
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Pretty similar result.
We're getting sort of a gelatinous sand,
but I wouldn't say that it's turned
back into slime.
Well it seems to have used up quite a bit of its water though.
So let's give it some more.
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We're definitely getting some results
It does seem to be absorbing the water,
at least somewhat.
But it took a long time to dehydrate,
so I wonder if it will take a long time to rehydrate.
So what we're going to do is fill both of these cups
with a fair amount of water,
and then just let them sit overnight,
and see what they turn into.
Will they turn back into the same kind
of slime they were before?
Or have we changed something fundamentally
by dehydrating them?
Our slime powders have now been sitting
in water for several days,
really trying to let them soak up just as much
as they possibly could.
Let's take a look at how they've turned out.
Our purple one is the homemade stuff,
and you can pretty clearly see that there appears to be just
a layer of water on top of whatever
is formed down there.
What has formed down there?
Okay.
This is a little bit like slime.
It's definitely got more texture,
but it is behaving pretty similarly to slime.
Stretch it out.
Squish it down.
It's slimy.
It's oozy.
It's not quite the same as it was before,
but I'd call that still some slime.
Purple, slightly grainy slime.
All right, let's take a look at our green slime.
This doesn't have the same clear water on the top.
I think it is a little bit thicker
farther down in the cup.
I don't know.
That's looking pretty slimy to me.
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Once again, there's-- I think
there's just a little bit of a texture to it that
wasn't there before.
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It's not even.
There's some thicker parts to our slime,
and there's some runny parts that you can't really get a hold of.
I feel like when it yeah,
when it comes from the store, I feel like it's really really smooth,
almost like it's green pudding.
This looks a little bit granular.
It looks like if you took purple food coloring,
and poured it into a diaper, and then took all the junk out.
It's about the same consistency.
Dehydrating works very well.
Rehydrating?
It takes a fair amount of time, and it doesn't give you quite
the same consistency,
but we were able to make powderized slime,
and turn it back into real slime.
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