Moon Blob Moon Blob: A Self-Siphoning Gel.   email to friend
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Everyone knows that water can't flow uphill. Not so fast... When a small amount of Polyox (polyethylene oxide) is mixed with water, it dissolves forming a thick, slippery, gooey, mucous-like gel. Oh, the visual imagery! When the gel is poured back and forth between two beakers, the gel mysteriously siphons from the higher held beaker to the lower one. Maybe water can flow uphill. You have to play with the stuff to believe it.