> > The mixture looks liquid but you can't immerse your finger inside.
> > Taking out the content with a spoon it's solid, droping down in the 
> > bowl it's liquid.
> > The perfect experiment for physics class.
> 
> It sounds like Vasile and I at least sometimes think alike :-)
> 
> I discovered this some years ago while cooking :-).
> Here the material I'd recommend is what we call Cornflour.
> 
> I was thinking just a few days ago, after having encountered 
> an ad for the "Monsterpod" camera support, that a contained 
> cornflour mix MAY make a suitable mouldable base for a camera 
> support. Able to be shaped but rigid against the camera 
> weight. Quite how one would manage this in detail is "yet to 
> be determined" :-)


Years ago (like 25) I saw a science programme about a liquid that would
solidify when a current passed thru it.  They thought it would make a neat
brake (vehicle), but I think a clutch or safety cutout would have been a
better use.

As usual with these things, it has never been seen since.

Tony

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