{"id":2499,"date":"2008-11-06T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T16:53:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:57:03","slug":"dilatant-fluids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/2008\/11\/06\/dilatant-fluids\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilatant fluids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Bendik and Line visited us. We served dinner and dessert, when I was about to finish the dessert &#8211; home-made fruit soup I use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flour\">Potato Flour<\/a>. Bendik then asked if I had tried to make shear thickening fluid out of water and potato fluid. I had never done that, since I did not even know what it was. So, we had to try. So with the perfect mix of potato flour and water you get a fluid which makes the spoon goes smoothly through it if you stir slowly, but if you do it fast the spoon almost gets stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, but not sure how to use this in real life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hellem.org\/pic\/2008\/11\/dilatant.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Bendik and Line visited us. We served dinner and dessert, when I was about to finish the dessert &#8211; home-made fruit soup I use Potato Flour. Bendik then asked if I had tried to make shear thickening fluid out of water and potato fluid. I had never done that, since I did not even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15104,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/15104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}