Getty Quicksand is not like it appears in the movies. The mixture — which is a combination of sand and water, according to Scientific American — typically occurs in areas near water ...

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His words end in a squawk. Jon's arms fling up, elbows stiff, fingers splayed. I hear the dread word: "Quicksand!" Quicksand is odd: a bed of silt becomes saturated with water so that its grains ...

Greg Foot investigates quicksand and discovers why it's so dangerous. Practical experiments show that quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid that can behave as both a solid and a liquid. The reasons ...