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SLiMe and Other Experiments

with the ND Chem Demo Team
2026-01-29 17:00:00 2026-01-29 18:00:00 America/New_York SLiMe and Other Experiments Enjoy a hands-on science extravaganza! Create your own custom slime and compare your mixture with ooblek. The team will rapidly freeze flowers in nitrogen and make a spooky smoke bubble with dry ice! Francis Branch - The Silo Room

Thursday, January 29
5:00pm - 6:00pm

Add to Calendar 2026-01-29 17:00:00 2026-01-29 18:00:00 America/New_York SLiMe and Other Experiments Enjoy a hands-on science extravaganza! Create your own custom slime and compare your mixture with ooblek. The team will rapidly freeze flowers in nitrogen and make a spooky smoke bubble with dry ice! Francis Branch - The Silo Room

Francis Branch

The Silo Room

Enjoy a hands-on science extravaganza! Create your own custom slime and compare your mixture with ooblek. The team will rapidly freeze flowers in nitrogen and make a spooky smoke bubble with dry ice!

  • Making Slime: In this demonstration, we will make slime from common household items. Glue is a key component of the slime as it is a polymer, which means that it is a long chain-like molecule, similar to how paperclips can string together. 
  • Making Oobleck: Oobleck is considered a non-Newtonian fluid, which means that it acts like a liquid when it is poured, but it also can act like a solid when a force is acting upon it. 
  • Liquid Nitrogen Flowers: For this experiment, flowers are submerged into the liquid nitrogen, which causes the water inside of the cells of the flowers to freeze rapidly. This rapid freezing causes the water to expand and form ice crystals, which makes the flowers extremely brittle and easy to shatter when you touch them! 
  • Smoke Bubbles: In this demonstration, we make bubbles that are filled with smoke, and students are able to hold the bubbles in their hands. The “smoke” is made from dry ice, which is solid carbon dioxide. \

AGE GROUP: | Children (6-11) |

EVENT TYPE: | Science & Technology |

Francis Branch
Phone: 574-282-4641
Branch manager
Tisa Birdette
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Mon, Dec 15 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Tue, Dec 16 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Wed, Dec 17 9:00AM to 7:00PM
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Fri, Dec 19 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Dec 20 9:00AM to 5:00PM
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Mon, Dec 29, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Wed, Jan 14, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Thu, Jan 15, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Making Your Life Into Speculative Fiction - with award-winning writer, Cat Rambo
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Fri, Jan 23, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Mon, Jan 26, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Cribbage offers an opportunity to meet new people, and learn a fun game. Cribbage is a card game in which each player tries to form various counting combinations of cards.
Book Talks
Tue, Jan 27, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
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Come join us for Book Talks! This book club meets in person on the last Tuesday of every month. Be a part of the discussion by sharing your review of your current reads!
Chess Club
Wed, Jan 28, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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All chess players are welcome, from the beginner wanting to learn for the first time to the advance player.
Francis Branch Crochet and Knitting Club
Thu, Jan 29, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Come join us as we work on projects, share tips & ideas, learn new stitches & techniques, and finish those works-in-progress.
SLiMe and Other Experiments - with the ND Chem Demo Team
Thu, Jan 29, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Silo Room
Enjoy a... more
Enjoy a hands-on science extravaganza! Create your own custom slime and compare your mixture with ooblek. The team will rapidly freeze flowers in nitrogen and make a spooky smoke bubble with dry ice!
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