{"id":50065,"date":"2025-09-07T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50065"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:40:19","slug":"chemistry-thixotropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-thixotropic\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry: thixotropic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about terms in chemistry: the tutor mentions the term thixotropic.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWhen a fluid is thixotropic, it gets thinner when agitated, but more settled when left alone. I wasn&#8217;t aware of this property until I experienced it with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluid-film.com\/products\/\">fluid film,<\/a> which I&#8217;ve been applying to the undercarriage of a vehicle to protect it from rust.<\/p>\n<p>As I understand, Fluid Film is lanolin (wool-wax)-based.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluid-film.com\/about\/\">fluid-film.com\/about<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fyfluiddynamics.com\/2011\/02\/theres-more-to-non-newtonian-fluids-than\/\">fyfluiddynamics.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about terms in chemistry: the tutor mentions the term thixotropic. When a fluid is thixotropic, it gets thinner when agitated, but more settled when left alone. I wasn&#8217;t aware of this property until I experienced it with fluid film, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-thixotropic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry: thixotropic<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3768],"class_list":["post-50065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","tag-fluid-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50071,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50065\/revisions\/50071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}