Book 26, Question 7
How did a mistake lead to Silly Putty?
In one lab, James Wright mixed silicone oil with another chemical and got a strange goo.
In the early 1940s, scientists were searching for a cheap, bouncy substitute for rubber. It bounced like rubber and stretched like taffy but didn't work as a rubber substitute. Years later, a toy seller put it in plastic eggs, and it became a toy.