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sprytemember
45 posts
Location: Canada


Posted:
Just when you thought your glow sticks were dead.... Microwave'em for 10 or 15 seconds !

AnonymousPLATINUM Member


Posted:
As for the tritium stuff, chances are that you aren't going to find anything much larger than the size on that site. After all, the tritium is radioactive. Granted, it's in such small quantities that this presents no problems. Just make sure if it ever breaks open that you don't let the stuff touch you, and especially don't let it get into your mouth. Oh, and the tritium lights are not the military glow sticks I was talking about.

NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
Wow, 10 year glowsticks. I must say I was a doubter before I saw the site... They seem VERY dim, but that's still pretty cool. And Steelwings, if you're going to start with "Luminol" you might as well just start with glowsticks in my opinion. That's just cheating! Also, I really like the look of two glowsticks at different lengths on each string. It makes wraps harder and tangles worse but looks very cool for "fire" style moves.Eric, I'm not sure if you were telling just me to shut up or all of us. I'm sorry if I did anything to offend.

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SteelWngsBRONZE Member
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Location: Malden, Massachusetts United States, USA


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Luminol Luminol is also widely used as a chemiluminescent reagent, but unlike the peroxyoxalate systems does not require an organic/mixed solvent system. The chemiluminescent emitter is a "direct descendent" of the oxidation of luminol (or an isomer like isoluminol) by an oxidant in basic aqueous solution. Probably the most useful oxidant is also hydrogen peroxide similar to peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence; however, other oxidants have been used such as perborate, permanganate (Lu and Lu, 1992), hypochlorite (Cunningham et al., 1998), and iodine (Seitz, 1981). If the fuel is luminol, the emitting species is 3-aminophthalate (see below); however, luminol-derivatized analytes allow for determination of compounds that would not normally chemiluminescence in this system and presumably have slightly different emitters (Edwards et al., 1995; Kawasaki et al., 1985; Lippman, 1980; Nakazone et al., 1992; Pontén et al., 1996). You call that easy? Heck I can go to any record store in Boston and buy glow sticks. smileHey NYC ... Ya gota love having M.I.T. in your backyard. smile------------------Blessings to all, Peter "There is a rhythm that unites us with the natural world. The more we learnto feel that rhythm and get it into the mainstream of our lives, thestronger can be our spirit."--- Robert Rodale

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NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
I still say it's cheating. To a chemist that's like buying a '57 chevy, replacing the tires and saying you built it. Luminol is a widely used chemiluminescent reagent already. You gotta buy it premade. As Clark and I agreed on the previous post it's not as much fun.MIT? Heck this is basic undergrad stuff... I teach it to my HS students. wink

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SteelWngsBRONZE Member
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Location: Malden, Massachusetts United States, USA


Posted:
As for MIT I was refering to thier library. smile I have read other posts that you stated that you are a teacher. as for referance materials, I swear if you want to find someting on science M.I.T has a book allready written on the subject. Back to the origional topic glow sticks. I have a 10$ a week habit. smile LOL------------------Blessings to all, Peter "There is a rhythm that unites us with the natural world. The more we learnto feel that rhythm and get it into the mainstream of our lives, thestronger can be our spirit."--- Robert Rodale

Blessings to all,
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Janglamember
155 posts
Location: Oxford, UK


Posted:
I reckon it is possible to have 10 yr glo-stix, especially if made from Tritium. Anyone got a glow in the dark watch face? Stick a geiger counter on it and it goes nuts - radioactive. A tritium stick would have a much greater half-life than a regular glo-stic but would be very very very dangerous to use for extended periods. Think I'll stick to my regular stix and keep myself fertile and one-headed thanx!...just checked the traser site - don't think they'll be bright enough - only visible from about 30ft away! glow stix are visible from much further than that! You'd need about 6 on each poi....suppose that would get rid of the lack-of-weight problem though.....------------------"We are all of us in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars."[This message has been edited by Jangla (edited 01 September 2001).]

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TaiGuymember
127 posts
Location: Yorktown, VA, USA


Posted:
hey besides, using luminol "since it'd be cheating" are there other ways using basic chemistry components? (nothing to expensive and hopefully not to dangerous, since i mean i can come up with a thousand and 1 ways to make something glow... just wouldn't be safe though smile). I'd like to have a pet project for chem class this year ^_^ so fill me in people!

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NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
There's no MacGuyver way to make something glow, Tai. Clark and I were chatting about it on the "cyalume" thread.

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Fuegolomember
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Location: Germany (Stuttgart, Passau)


Posted:
Friend of mine did s.th. really stupid, :MAKING FIRE WHILST BEING DRUNK!Generally I don't consider to use gazoline dangerous, IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT!!She obviously didn't and lit her cheins next to a 1-liter bottle of gazoline, hit it with her burning chain, got burning petrol all over her legs and had to stay in hospital for a good while!EVERYTHING below belt got burned, she can't even pee without pain anymore!BE CAREFUL AND NEVER DO FIRE DRUNK!

YakumoSILVER Member
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1,237 posts
Location: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom


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even before that, never, EVER , EVER spin with gasoline / petrol or other explosive fuels!!!

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YakumoSILVER Member
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Location: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom


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whoops, I've revived a donkys years old thread again, ah well, hit it cos some anon user was reading it, so the comment was worth adding!

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pkBRONZE Member
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4,997 posts
Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
you'd have thought that would be common sense confused

oh well was worth reading NYC's chemistry lessons from 2001.

Was he actually teaching when he made his first post or just studying?... confused boh.

PeleBRONZE Member
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA


Posted:
Teaching...he had a *FIT* when anyone tried to call him by name, freakin' that his students would figure out who he is and that would be breech of professionalism or some such.

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pkBRONZE Member
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4,997 posts
Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
 Written by: Pele


Teaching...he had a *FIT* when anyone tried to call him by name, freakin' that his students would figure out who he is and that would be breech of professionalism or some such.



rolleyes yeah that i understand very well after doing it once, and then he frog marched me to the edit button! wink

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Posted:
frogs can march?

or in NYC land, do you march frogs? umm

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NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
 Written by: Pele


Teaching...he had a *FIT* when anyone tried to call him by name, freakin' that his students would figure out who he is and that would be breech of professionalism or some such.



Yeah, it only takes one time when two students broke into my house and left a note IN MY LIVING ROOM that said "Ha Ha, Now We Know Where You Live" to make me a bit cautious about separating work and play.

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Stained_WhisperGOLD Member
Lighting up the darkness, one performance at a time
161 posts
Location: south africa


Posted:
i dunno about the micro thingy... just get battery opperated ones... last forever ( i think)

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ZenoophSILVER Member
psychadelic pyro
570 posts
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa


Posted:
Unless someone breaks them....

I'm not pointing any fingers at Stained, but....

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Stained_WhisperGOLD Member
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161 posts
Location: south africa


Posted:
hey hey hey, i fixed them didnt i.......

and an important lessos was leart - isolate the with
rubber or something---

you should be thanking me that i made this important discovery otherwise you would never know. LOL hahahahahaha

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