the unit used for thixotropic media is a twaddle. They use it in the pottery industry when using slip. Slip is liquid clay, with something in it to make it thixotropic. Think non-drip paint. Slip is like leather but when stirred with a mechanised paddle it runs like pouring cream. Then run into moulds and poured out after a few minutes. What sticks to the plaster (of paris) is yer pottery - unfired.

PS That was twaddle - it is spelled Twaddell and presumably named after the guy who invented the Twaddell Hydrometer. Which gives a measure relative to water.

So what units do we measure twaddle in? and should it be a pancake or does that measure whaffle?