Slime
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“Human life has no more meaning than the life of slime mould.”--Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002) by John Gray "[ The slimy] is a soft, yielding action, a moist and feminine sucking, it lives obscurely under my fingers, and I sense it like a dizziness; it draws me to it as the bottom of a precipice might draw me." --Being and Nothingness (1943) by Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Biology
- Slime mold, a broad term often referring to roughly six groups of Eukaryotes
- Biofilm, an aggregate of microorganisms in which cells adhere to each other and/or to a surface
- Slimy (fish), also known as the ponyfish
- Snail slime, the mucus used by gastropods for locomotion
- Subsurface Lithoautotrophic Microbial Ecosystem (SLiME), a biotope occupied by 'slime'.
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Chemistry
- Gunge (UK) or Slime (US), a thick, gooey, yet runny substance used in children's TV programmes.
- Flubber (material), a rubbery polymer commonly called slime.
- Slimes, another name for tailings, a waste material left after the process of separation of ores
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Fiction
- "Slime" (short story) (Russian: тина), a short story by Anton Chekhov
- "Slime", a novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan. Originally published in the March 1953 issue of Weird Tales
- Slimey the Worm, the pet of Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street
- Slime (Dragon Quest), the mascot of the Dragon Quest console role-playing game franchise
- Slimer, a green ghost made of slime from the film Ghostbusters
- Slime, a hostile mob from Minecraft that splits into multiple smaller slimes when killed.
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Brands
- Slime (toy), a viscous, oozing green material made primarily from guar gum and sold with a plastic trash can
- Slime (brand), a brand of tire care products
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See also
- Green slime (disambiguation)
- Pink slime, meat trimmings separated from fat by a centrifuge
- Blob (disambiguation)
- Oobleck (disambiguation)
- Slime ball (disambiguation)
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Namesakes
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