I always thought "thixotropic" meant something
thinned out when agitated, so I looked it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThixotropyI thought this part of that wiki article was amusing, and I hate to point it out because it will surely result in thread drift:
Both cytoplasm and the ground substance in the human body is thixotropic, as is semen.[1]
I wonder how they discovered that one.
:D
It (the Cadet's mixture) stopped "a" bullet. Looked like a .22LR to me in the video, but hard to tell fer shore.
From the Air Force Times article: "The idea to separately use shear thickening fluid, Kevlar and carbon fibers as anti-ballistic materials is not new, but they’ve never been used together."
Add 3.8% of Silly Putty and they may have something there.
I'm not trying to diminish or nay-say the achievement, but it looks like the whole thing was puffed up a bit for some reason.
Terry, 230RN