Slime took center stage at the Oaks Mall on Halloween as the UF Department of Chemistry held its fourth annual Molecular Mania event on Saturday morning.
The event let children and families watch or conduct interactive science experiments.
There was a chance to make slime, watch marshmallows freeze in liquid nitrogen and see milk glow under a fluorescent black light.
Assistant professor Adam Veige, who oversaw Saturday's event, said the chemistry department holds four community-based events a year that are run by students.
Monique Williams, a biochemistry doctoral student, ran an experiment displaying non-Newtonian fluid, which has properties of both a liquid and a solid and allows bullet-proof vests to be flexible enough for movement and hard enough to stop bullets.
Children at the event, which was sponsored by the Florida section of the American Chemical Society and the National Science Foundation, received experiment checklists that could be entered for a chance to win either a chemistry set or a crystal-growing set.
