dilatant

Over the weekend, a writer at the Dilatant Pharma blog reminded us that three drugs have already been approved in the U.S. without clinical trials for the indication, and that they anticipate ZMapp could be investigated under this special provision.

Among the projects that will make the trip on Sunday is one from middle school students in Santa Monica, Calif., who want to know whether Silly Putty — a non-Newtonian dilatant fluid, in scientific terms — will have different properties in the weightlessness of space than it has on Earth.

He became interested in dilatant materials, whose unique flowing and locking molecular bond was discovered in the '50s.