Just 35 milligrams of exudate makes more than a liter of water-entraining hydrogel slime in less than 100 ms, holding 26,000 times its dry weight in water.
Long, impressively skeined thread filaments from the thread cells spontaneously release themselves from their thread chambers as water interacts to dissolve the glue-like substance that stabilizes them. The thread filaments and mucin make an interconnected mesh that interacts synergistically to form a dilute, slimy mass that entrains large volumes of water.
