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	Silly putty
		The history of silly putty is quite amusing.
		He was unable to achieve the properties he was looking for and put his creation (later to be called silly putty) on the shelf as a failure.
		The polymers in silly putty have covalent bonds within the molecules, but hydrogen bonds between the molecules.
	www.chem.umn.edu /outreach/Sillyputty.html (222 words)

	How silly putty is made - Background, Raw materials, Design, The manufacturing process of silly putty, Quality control, ...
		In 1943, Silly Putty was accidentally invented by James Wright, an engineer in General Electric's New Haven laboratory, which was under a government contract to create an inexpensive substitute for synthetic rubber for the war effort.
		Silly Putty is made from a mixture of silicone polymers (about 70 wt%) and other chemicals, including boric acid.
		Silly putty was a serendipitous design that resulted from the combination of boric acid and silicone oil.
	www.madehow.com /Volume-5/Silly-Putty.html (0 words)

	Silly Putty Summary
		Silly putty was invented accidently by James Wright, an engineer with General Electric, in the early 1940s when he was asked to develop a low-cost synthetic rubber substitute for the military.
		Silly Putty has sometimes been characterized as a dilatant fluid; however according to the science of rheology this is not strictly correct; it is more accurate to characterize it as a viscoelastic liquid.
		Silly Putty is primarily composed of the polymer known as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), which is known for its dramatic viscoelastic character.
	www.bookrags.com /Silly_Putty (1280 words)

	Silly Putty creator found use for ‘useless’ product
		According to Silly Putty maker Binney and Smith, Hodgson and Fallgatter were attending a party hosted by a General Electric executive when the mysterious material was passed around the room.
		Silly Putty is now one of about 300 different products made at Dow Corning’s Greensboro plant, which has made the product for more than 20 years.
		Silly Putty was created during World War II either by Corning Glass Works scientists Rob Roy McGregor and Earl Warrick, or by James Wright, a GE researcher.
	www.lubbockonline.com /business/bizmonthly/stories/1098/silly_putty_creator_found_use_fo.htm (0 words)

	Silly Putty - SgWiki
		Silly Putty was invented by James Wright of General Electric when he dropped boric acid into silicone oil.
		Silly Putty is sold as a 0.47 oz (13 g) piece of plastic clay inside an egg-shaped plastic container.
		Since the 1980s, Silly Putty has been available in various colors, including glow-in-the-dark and metallic, and colors can be easily combined to make new shades.
	www.sgwiki.com /index.php?title=Silly_Putty&redirect=no (613 words)

	brandchannel.com \| Silly Putty \| Licensing \| brands \| brand \| branding news
		Silly Putty -- the gooey substance that bounces like a ball but stretches like pizza dough, and flows like a liquid but breaks into chunks -- is about as American as the 4th of July.
		Silly Putty came into being during World War II when a General Electric engineer mixed boric acid with silicone oil in an attempt to create a synthetic rubber for automobile tires.
		Although Silly Putty's strongest appeal was initially to adults, within five years of Hodgson's stewardship the market had shifted to kids between the ages of 6 and 12.
	www.brandchannel.com /features_profile.asp?id=147 (0 words)

	Chemical & Engineering News: What's That Stuff? Silly Putty
		Silly Putty was a welcome, almost necessary, companion to the Sunday comics.
		In more technical terms, Silly Putty is a dilatant compound, which means it has an inverse thixotropy--that is, as a viscous suspension or gel, it becomes solid under the influence of pressure.
		Silly Putty is touted as a grip enhancer, used, Binney and Smith says, by athletes to increase hand strength.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/whatstuff/stuff/7848scit3.html (0 words)

	Silly Putty
		Silly Putty is a polymer made from silicone oil and boric acid.
		Silly Putty has flexible molecules that, when smooshed by fingers, slide over each other and cause the material to flow.
		Putty is flammable and when lit, the flame is a very bright white.
	merlin.alfred.edu /muller/FormerPhysWorld/PhysWorld/Project5/sillyputty.group4.htm (459 words)

	Silly Physics with Silly Putty New Zealand Physics Teachers' Resource Bank
		SIlly Putty or Trick Putty is made of long chain molecules that can slide past each other on a long time scale but not on a short time scale.
		The result is that silly putty bounces off another lump of silly putty if thrown at it but sticks to another lump if left in contact for a second or two.
		The use of Silly Putty as an example of a complex fluid was suggested by Dr.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /scps-demos/demos/Cool_Stuff/SillyPutty/SillyPhysics.htm (0 words)

	Wayne Schmidt's Silly Putty Page
		Silly putty is made from mixtures of the two principle compounds at concentrations, mixing rates and mixing durations so that at room temperature, when manipulated at normal human-hand articulation speeds (1-inch per second) it feels soft and pliable.
		While Silly Putty can still be used to pick up fl newsprint and fl-line images off newspapers, the colored inks used in the comics section have changed and you can no longer lift such images and stretch them into funny faces.
		Silly Putty is classed as a visco-elastic material, something half way between a liquid and a solid.
	www.waynesthisandthat.com /sillyputty (4197 words)

	Silly Putty
		Silly putty should not be put in a sink, on carpet, or in hair.
		The silly putty will naturally dry out and become the correct consistency as you play with it.
		Students can listen to directions, tell directions and use many different adjectives to describe the silly putty and how it was made.
	www.ncsu.edu /ncsu/pams/science_house/CO2/activities/polymer/sillyputty.html (0 words)

	Silly Putty
		Coomes described the therapeutic values of Silly Putty while kneading it, bouncing it, rolling it, stretching it and lifting impressions of faces of newly engaged couples from newspaper pages; then distorting them to release her anger at a date who stood her up.
		Silly Putty can also be used to clean typewriter keys, plug leaks, remove lint from clothing and steady wobbly tables.
		Silly Putty made Hodgson a very wealthy man. He and his wife, Margaret, lived in Madison in a mansion, with a tennis court and swimming pool, on 88 partially wooded acres overlooking Long Island Sound.
	webpages.charter.net /gschenberg/puthist.htm (828 words)

	Joey Green
		He bought 21 pounds of the putty for $147, hired a Yale student to separate it into half-ounce balls, and marketed the putty inside colored plastic eggs as Silly Putty.
		Geology and Astronomy professors often use Silly Putty to demonstrate the gradual movement of large masses of Earth.
		Silly Putty was originally shipped in egg cartons purchased from the Connecticut Cooperative Poultry Association.
	www.wackyuses.com /wf_silly.html (339 words)

	Official Google Blog: I'm feeling silly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Not long ago, I walked by the desk of software engineer JJ Furman, and saw that he had made an interesting addition to his desk: a large blob of Silly Putty, about the size of a grapefruit.
		Naturally, we were all curious to see what 250 pounds of Silly Putty would look like, so before distributing the stuff, we put it all in a single pile to see.
		The problem was that once together, Silly Putty doesn't like to come apart, and none of us had any idea of how to deal with this effect.
	googleblog.blogspot.com /2005/12/im-feeling-silly.html (0 words)

	TV ACRES: Chemicals, Drugs & Potions > Silly Putty
		He dubbed this strange substance "nutty putty." Samples of the product were sent to numerous scientists for research purposes but nothing substantial came of their investigations.
		After Silly Putty was mentioned in The New Yorker magazine's "Talk of the Town" section on Aug. 26, 1950, the simple product became a 1950s craze and went on to become a multi-million dollar industry.
		In 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 used pieces of Silly Putty to alleviate boredom and to secure their tools in zero-gravity.
	www.tvacres.com /chemicals_sillyputty.htm (467 words)

	Silly Putty
		Silly putty should not be put in a sink, on carpet, or in hair.
		The silly putty will naturally dry out and become the correct consistency as you play with it.
		Students can listen to directions, tell directions and use many different adjectives to describe the silly putty and how it was made.
	www.science-house.org /CO2/activities/polymer/sillyputty.html (786 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		The putty seemed doomed to remain a local curiosity; but in 1949, an unemployed ad man named Peter Hodgson attended a party at which "nutty putty" was the main entertainment.
		He renamed it Silly Putty®, and packaged it in plastic eggs because Easter was on the way.
		Silly Putty®, still a recognized name in over 95% of American households, remains one of the classic novelty products of modern times.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/sillyputty.html (321 words)

	Silly Science
		Silly Putty is a dilatant compound, a silicone based polymer that is highly elastic, exhibits high bounce, can be easily molded, yet can hold it shape while at rest.
		Silly Putty was invented by James Wright, a researcher at General Electric who was working on synthetic rubber substitutes.
		Silly Putty is manufactured by Binney and Smith in Easton, Pa. (for more on how Silly Putty is made...
	www.sillyputty.com /silly_science/silly_science.htm (0 words)

	PuTTY FAQ
		PuTTY implements the client end of that session: the end at which the session is displayed, rather than the end at which it runs.
		PuTTY's terminal emulator has always had the policy that when the ‘alternate screen’ is in use, nothing is added to the scrollback.
		The PuTTY policy changed because the developers were informed of ways to implement DSA which do not suffer nearly as badly from this weakness, and indeed which don't need to rely on random numbers at all.
	www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /~sgtatham/putty/faq.html (0 words)

	Polymers: Experiment 3
		The silly putty is formed by joining the globules using sodium borate (a cross-linker).
		The silly putty is held together by very weak intermolecular bonds that provide flexibility around the bond and rotation about the chain of the cross-linked polymer.
		The silly putty is non-toxic and safe to handle so you can put it in a zip-lock bag and take it home.
	matse1.mse.uiuc.edu /~tw/polymers/f.html (1154 words)

	Silly Putty
		Silly Putty Sports Series - Soccer takes the great game of soccer and adds a little "silliness" to it.
		Silly Putty Sports Series - Football takes the great game of football and adds a little "silliness" to it.
		Silly Putty, The Real Solid Liquid, has been the standard of excellent fun since 1950.
	www.antfarmcam.com /silly-putty.htm (256 words)

	Wayne Schmidt's Silly Putty Page
		silly is that its dilatant behavior is contrary to everyday experience.
		While silly putty is usually just tacky as regards its ability to stick to things, I've discovered two materials it instantly bonds to and is very difficult to remove.
		I find it hard to believe that the gold is reacting with the silly putty because gold is one of the least reactive elements in the world.
	www.waynesthisandthat.com /sillyputty.htm (4350 words)

	Silly Putty History - Invention of Silly Putty
		Kids today continue to discover and marvel over Silly Putty's unique properties that allow it to be bounced, stretched and molded into a multitude of wacky shapes.
		Silly Putty is recommended by many therapists as an ideal stress reliever because of the calming effect playing with Silly Putty can have on your nerves
		A golden touch was added to Silly Putty for the 50th Anniversary with the introduction of Metallic Gold Silly Putty.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/sillyputty.htm (697 words)

	Halfbakery: Silly Putty Armor
		We all know that silly putty shatters upon high-velocity impact(due to the dynamic boron-mediated crosslinks), in theory the shattering silly putty will bear the brunt of the destructive force of the bullet.
		There is a substance known as “ballistic putty” which is used to stop projectiles at the back of bullet and pellet traps in target shooting as well as in crime labs for test firings.
		Replacing the Kevlar with silly putty and then adding Kevlar to prevent penetration certainly is a novel approach.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Silly_20Putty_20Armor (0 words)

	Crazy Aaron's Puttyworld - Thinking Putty defeats Fingerprint Scanners!
		I'd put my putty in the fridge, and I pressed my thumb into it just before pouring the jelly in.
		Thinking Putty always creeps towards a puddle-like state unless you've actually frozen it, so, for the experiment, I wanted the minimum possible time between the impression and the molding.
		The gelatine was full of bubbles from my stirring, but the jelly thumb nonetheless had a pretty good complement of print-ridges on it...
	www.puttyworld.com /thinputdeffi.html (0 words)

	Silly Putty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Silly Putty comes in a plastic container about the size of a real egg.
		The container must be used to store the Silly Putty or it will slowly flow all over everything.
		Silly Putty can be used as a reusable clay for shaping objects, can be rolled up into a ball and bounced or can be used to pull images off of comic books or newspapers.
	explore4fun.com /sillyputty.html (74 words)

	Thinking Putty
		Thinking Putty is completely unique and now, thanks to Firebox, you can own a tin packed with over 3 ounces of the stuff, ready to put to work for whatever cause you see fit.
		Thinking Putty is perfect for stress and tension relief, as a desktop or office toy and as a cure for boredom.
		Thinking Putty is not recommended for use by small children (3 years and under) as it may present a choking hazard.
	www.firebox.com /index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=439 (1444 words)

	Rock Climbing Forums: Climbing Information: Technique & Training: silly putty?
		I was given this silly putty like substance that came in a griped hand container.
		shape some silly putty like a hold (small crimper is best) and carefully bore a "bolt hole" thru it.
		i've always heard that silly putty was invented by a few guys who were trying to make tire rubber and came up with it instead and that one of the guys (who didn't really help invent it) asked if he could take the recipe becasue he thought it was fun.
	www.rockclimbing.com /topic/38230 (0 words)

	Silly Putty ......... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He began producing it, renaming it it Silly Putty, and packaged it in plastic eggs 'because Easter was on the way'.
		In 1991, 'Glow in the Dark' Silly Putty became available, and only recently was released in gold and silver colours.
		But we did find a recipe for home-made putty which is very similar to the real thing, and easy to make too.
	www.worsleyschool.net /science/files/silly/putty.html (641 words)

	Craft Library: Silly Putty
		Store the Silly Putty in an air tight container, plastic bag, or plastic Easter egg (just like the original putty).
		The mixture will look like putty after it is kneaded, in fact, the more you knead the better the consistency will be.
		Remove the putty from the bowl and knead until the desired consistency.
	www.homeschoolzone.com /craft/sillyputty.htm (0 words)

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