In today's video,
we are going to find out if you can make slime
out of ballpoint pen ink.
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Guys, a few of you wanted to see
if we could make slime out of pen ink.
A few of you.
This is 48 comments,
and the irony of this is that they were more,
but we ran out of printer ink to print them.
So I guess,
we're going to try and make some slime out of pen ink.
But first,
we should probably address the elephant in the room.
My black gloves are gone, you guys.
We've decided to wear white gloves with this video because
if you've seen our previous videos with the ink,
it stains everything.
We kind of want to see how bad it's going to be.
Here's the basic idea.
Taking our leftover ballpoint pen ink,
we are going to mix that with some regular slime,
and see if we can get it to hold together.
To start off,
we are going to make the most basic slime there is, borax,
clear glue, and water.
Let's get mixing.
Start off with 1 cup water, and 1/2 teaspoon borax.
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Once your borax is dissolved,
add 1/2 cup of water to 5 ounces of clear glue,
which is just over 1/2 cup.
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All right, before I combine these two,
I'm actually going to add the pen ink
to our glue mixture.,
see if that's even going to mix it all before we add the borax.
This might be the very end of our ink, guys.
We're just going to start with a little.
When I say a little,
I mean about a hundred pens worth.
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Oh, wow.
Right from the start,
you can actually see the blue is separating right out.
Pigments rising to the top.
Now, you can actually see the copper
and the blue has sort of separated here.
Now, it almost looks like an oil spill.
It doesn't look quite the same as the surface
of our ink itself,
but you definitely have that metallic shine.
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Oh, something happened.
Wait.
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Awesome.
Guys, I think it worked.
We have pen ink slime.
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Well, it definitely worked.
You can still see these bits of copper everywhere.
But the blue, you can actually see,
it's kind of coming out on my gloves.
So it's separated.
But to be honest,
it's not making nearly as huge of a mess
as I thought.
I was expecting this to stick to everything.
But instead of sticking
to everything, it's just a beautiful metallic slime.
The color is really
not sticking to my gloves as bad as I thought it was,
so I'm gonna do something that's probably not smart.
They have to know.
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That's not nearly as bad as I was already expecting.
Yes.
It's getting some ink on me, but it's not like a full coat.
It's just barely there.
Oh wait, there's our blue.
See that?
When it gets thin and transparent...
Wow, it's almost like we have little galaxies forming in it.
It's honestly what it looks like.
That is so cool.
All right, you guys win.
This is awesome.
I want to see it outside.
Let's see if we can get it in the sunlight.
It's honestly metalic ooze now.
It looks so coppery red.
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See how the color moves, like there's blue up here.
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Well, a couple of you said you wanted to see
if it could be frozen.
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Let's see if we find that again.
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I don't think the snow is going to do much to it.
But again, I'm very surprised,
the color is just not coming off.
Not even sticking to it a little bit.
Snow staying very white no matter where it goes.
So I got more ink on my hands
because I was trying to mix it with my fingers,
instead of just letting it solidify.
But it's holding together.
Alright, so I'm back inside,
and we've actually made a second batch
of ink slime for a little bit of a different contrast.
This one, we've used a lot more pigment.
So this one,
you can actually see right off the bat.
There are these copper swirls in my first batch.
Now on my second batch,
I use probably double the amount of ink,
and it is just an inky black in comparison.
It's also interesting to note
that this one is also a lot more malleable.
My first one, very very firm, wants to rip.
I think I pulled it out of the borax solution
a little too quick.
But this one is much goopier,
and I've noticed there is a difference
when hold them up into the light.
You get a lot more copper coming through on this one,
but our second batch...
Now the first colors to come through this one,
blue and almost a deep green.
All of these are just starting to look like nebulas to me.
This is awesome.
Now, obviously, my hands are stained to death
because I've mixed two batches now of this stuff,
but I want to see
if it actually will stay in paper now
that it's fully mixed.
So our first batch, which is what more brittle.
Just leave that there.
The second batch.
Now, if I just rub these along the paper.
Well...
It's brittle, but it's just dusting away.
There's really not any staining happening.
This more oozy second batch.
That's about the same,
but the color itself isn't actually really
sticking to the paper.
The ink is well and truly in the slime.
This is in fact ink pigmented slime,
and I cannot get over these little galaxies in here.
All right.
Well, we've made two different types of slime with our pen ink,
but this comment suggest that we also make ink oobleck.
Let's try it.
All right, for the oobleck,
as much fun as it would be to just simply dump the cornstarch
in the rest of our pen ink,
I don't want to destroy it all yet.
So I'm going to put some in with water,
and then try and mix in the cornstarch,
and see what that looks like.
Right away, it disperses so much faster
than it did in just the glue and water.
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The coloring just reminds me a lot of the blue glaucus.
It's this little tiny sea slug, but that coloring is identical.
Just mix it straight into the water.
Oh, well, immediately,
it's almost dried on the surface.
It cracked right through.
That's weird.
It actually doesn't really want to mix in with the water.
All right, we're going to try this a different way.
We're going to pour the water out,
and I'm going to add cornstarch just to the ink itself,
and add water as we go.
Because that's not going to mix like this.
Ink with just the tiniest bit of water still in the bowl,
which is really cool because as I stir it,
you can watch the blue just sort of seep out.
Now, my concern with this is that cornstarch is very opaque,
and I am not sure
what that's going to do to our coloring here.
Because right now,
you can see it's mixing into the water,
but it's really not wanting to have anything to do with ink,
which is actually making for a pretty cool result.
All right.
Let's add a touch more water, see if it'll actually mix now
that cornstarch is involved.
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Got the gloves back on so let's try this out.
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It feels exactly like regular oobleck.
The difference is this will never come off.
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Side-by-side comparison.
This popsicle stick only has ink,
and this one has oobleck.
If you look at the difference here,
I mean the differences in viscosity is apparent,
but color-wise,
they're even closer than the ink slime is.
Let's take a look at that.
Now, the ink slime you can see
that the pigment is actually still separated.
You've got touches of blue in our darker pigmentation,
and the copper is really showing through in our first batch.
Then our oobleck and our straight pen ink.
Much closer.
I don't think there's any saving this Oobleck.
Now, I didn't want to make too much
because I didn't want to use all of the pen ink.
See how it just reacts just sit in for a second.
Normal Oobleck will just pool and almost form like a liquid.
So, let's see if it does that.
Well, what we may have done is just dried out the ink,
which actually makes sense.
Sometimes, if you're using an ink pen,
you can actually dust the paper
when you're done to try and dry it faster.
I'm almost wondering
if that's what we've done here with the cornstarch.
It's absorbed so much of the liquid in the pen ink
that it's almost lost its fluid nature.
It's still there,
but it's definitely not as a liquid as regular Oobleck
anymore, even as liquid as it was 10 minutes ago.
But it's sure making some cool patterns.
The messiest way to paint.
Well guys, can you make ink slime?
Yes, you can.
Can you make ink Oobleck?
Yes, you can, and it's awesome.
We still have a little bit of pen ink left.
So if there's anything else that you want to see us do with that,
let us know in the comments below.
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