Slime - Definition and Overview

Slime can be a type of character or creature in games, and also describes type of substance found in nature.

Slime in Games

• Slime — A typical blue (male) or red (female) smiling drop of water.
• Metal Slime — Completely covered with hard metal armor, the Metal Slime offers great rewards to anyone who can manage to destroy it.
• Babble (bubble slime) — A melted slime with a poisonous attack.
• Metal Babble — Like the Metal Slime, the Metal Babble is a touch nut to crack, but the amount of money it drops makes it more than worthwhile.
• Healer Slime — An airborne slime, resembling a jellyfish, with the power to heal its allies.
• Marine Slime — This slime inhabits a conch shell and looks vaguely like a hermit crab.
• Slime Knight — A hobbit knight with a slime as its steed.
• King Slime — Befitting royalty, this slime wears a crown on its head.
• Metal King — Just like the Metal Slime, only tougher and stronger. And far more lucrative to anyone who can best it in combat.
• Gold Slime — A slime shaped like a huge jewel.
• Platinium King — A jewelled slime composed of platinium. The stuff of legends.
• Spot Slime — A common yellow slime with brown spots, like a Dalmatian.
• Dragon Slime — A winged reptillian slime with the ability to breathe fire.

As the most recognizable symbol of the best-selling video game series in Japan, the slime has been featured prominently in Dragon Quest-related merchandise. Slime merchandise includes:

• Plush toys
• Pencil cases
• Sony PlayStation 2 game controller

Making Slime

You can make a mostly harmless though entertaining slimy substance using the following ingredients;

• borax (available in hardware or convenience stores)
• pva glue, e.g. white wood glue (available in hardware or convenience stores) based on polyvinyl acetate.
• water

Combining the ingredients in the correct order and proportion produces a thick tacky fluid like material. A good external source for detailed quantities & instructions can be found at [www.madsci.org (http://www.madsci.org/experiments/archive/878680114.Ch.html)]

The result is an opaque viscous polymer, damp to touch but very tactile when squashed between your fingers.

Using polyvinyl alcohol instead of the glue results in a transparent slime.

Your slime can be enhanced by adding a small quantity of food colouring to the mixture.

• Conduct further research if you are worried about the health effects of using borax or Polyvinyl_chloride based products

The Band

There also existed a German punk band from Hamburg named "Slime".

[1] (http://www.slime.de)