0 Comment. Make fake snot for cool science, gross science, or your next party! Easy to make with a few kitchen ingredients, fake snot slime is even edible or at the very least taste safe. Not so tasty for a snack but not harmful either.
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The equal parts gelatin mixture to corn syrup made the perfect fake snot that you could pick up and watch flow like mucous. We used less corn syrup for our edible slime and made a thicker textured slime. Play around with different amounts of corn syrup to check out different textures.
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1.Pour 1/2 cup water in the bowl (if you’re using a microwave), or saucepan (if you’re using a stove). 2.Heat the water just until it boils, then remove the water from the heat source and turn it off. 3.Sprinkle the gelatin in the water. Stir. If you want to add food coloring, do so now. (But I wouldn’t put any color if you want it to be realistic). 4.Let the mixture sit for one minute. 5.Measure the mixture as you move it to the extra bowl. Remember that amount, and add enough corn syrup to make 1 cup total in the bowl.
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White glue will give you opaque snot and glue gel will produce you translucent slimy snot. Stir a couple of drops of food coloring into the glue mixture. Then, Add a spoonful of the borax solution to the glue mixture. Stir, if in a bowl, or squish, if in a baggie.
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It all starts with mucus, the sticky, slimy and viscous liquid that's made by the mucus membranes inside your nose. A more colloquial name for mucus is snot. And it's part of your body's front line defence system against infection. Mucus is an effective barrier that prevents your lungs from getting damaged. Every time you breathe in through your nose you draw in a myriad of tiny particles including dust, dirt, pollen, bacteria, and viruses.
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Mixing the Fake Snot Goop. Now we’re ready to make our snot! It’s really easy and a lot of fun for kids. Step 1 is to Stir 1/8 cup borax into 500 ml warm water. Allow this solution to cool to room temperature. In a separate container, stir 2 spoonfuls of glue into 3 spoonfuls of water.
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Lots of our cells make slimy mucus, but the mucus you see most often is snot. We make snot to protect the inside of our body from infection. Bacteria and viruses could get through your nose into your throat and lungs, but your snot traps them. Hooray for snot! You produce around one litre of slimy mucus a day.
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If a bigger animal tries to eat a hagfish, the hagfish makes lots of slime. The slime chokes the bigger animal and the hagfish escapes. Have a look at this video of hagfish slime. Wait until the end when it's all over the person's hands! Slugs. You've probably seen the slime trails that slugs make on a night. This slimy mucus helps stop the slug from slipping on vertical surfaces. It can also help slugs to find a mate. Slugs cover their body in a different type of slime, which stops the slug drying out. It also makes the slug less tasty to predators.
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6.Stir and lift out the long strands of snot you’ve made. If the snot thickens as it cools, add water spoonful by spoonful to thin it. Store in a resealable plastic bag. (Never pour slime down the drain.
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The tiny hairs lining your nose called cilia move mucus out of the nasal cavity, where it is eventually swallowed. This is to make room for fresh mucus to catch more germs and debris. Cilia also moves mucus and boogers to the front of the nose, where most people reckon they should come out on a tissue. Though, some insist on a finger. But there's good reason not to have a pick as boogers are full of germs, and the action can make your nose bleed.
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what make boogers slimy
Mucus makes boogers slimy. Lots of our cells make slimy boogers.