Quote Originally Posted by araveugnitsuga View Post
Nope, it's a colloidal suspension made of metal particles coated in a surfactant (read an oil) (which also prevents them from joining up) suspended in a liquid phase (normally something hydrophobic to tolerate the oil). It's more of a liquid that has metal inside but cannot split from it.

It's relatively easy to make if you have ammonia handy (which in my country is a regulated substance).
D=, this is what I get for not being a physicist.

Anyway, I had my physics TA told me centrifugal force didn't exist, and then he wondered why he got two answers from a 2nd degree equation. I 'bout got up and left.