What happends when you hit cornstarch and water?

Answer 1

What happens is it turns into a liquid/solid called ooblek but it all depends on how much you mix togeher.

~The cornstarch and water mixture acts like a solid sometimes and a liquid at other times. A mixture of cornstarch and water make what is known as a suspension. When you squeeze a Cornstarch Suspension it really feels like a solid because its molecules line up. But it looks like a liquid and acts like a liquid when no one is pressing on it because the molecules relax. When you punch the cornstarch, you force the cornstarch molecules closer together. The impact of this force traps the water between the starch chains to form a semi-rigid structure. When the pressure is released, the cornstarch flows to a liquid again. The "goo" that forms when mixing the two substances together acts very similar to quicksand.

Answer 2

If it is cold water, you get dirty water. If it's boiling water, you get a thick paste. Corn starch is one base for gravy, depending how thick you want your gravy. Also a base for fruit pies.If you put them together in the good proportion you will get a non-newtionian fluid, also called 'Oobleck'. It's solid when you put pressure on it and liquid when you don't pressurize it.

Answer 3

You get oobleck, which is a non-Newtonian fluid. A non-Newtonian fluid has properties of both a solid and a liquid and reacts to stress with increased viscosity.

Answer 4

When these two are mixed At a certain proportion of these two compounds there forms a solution of these two compounds

Answer 5

It becomes something like a silicon substance.

Answer 6

It gets even harder!

Answer 7

It turns into a clear doughy substance.