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"Glow in the Dark" How to make a Pemanent Reusable Glow stick

video "Glow in the Dark" How to make a Pemanent Reusable Glow stick

This is tutorial video on How to make a Glow stick in Glow in the Dark style. The materials in this experiment are simple, Epoxy resin, Straw, and some Phosphor Powder.
Phosphor Powder carries property of Phosphorescence, which is a specific type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence. Dont confuse this with Chemiluminescence used in Commercial Glow stick, which depends on energy of chemical reactions.

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Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod @ incompetech.com
Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

10 comments

Nov 21, 2009. 7:35 PMmk52815 says:

unitednuclear.com has some great glow powder!!!!!!

Nov 22, 2009. 12:37 AMcforchemistry (author) says:

Sadly, it don't ship internationally.
Prehaps I will make a tutorial on how to make Glow powder later on.

Nov 24, 2009. 4:56 AM

NurdRage says:

Oh cool! how do you make it?

Nov 24, 2009. 6:55 AMcforchemistry (author) says:

Actually just some Phosphor powder being secured in a straw or tube by epoxy, I think this is more eco-frienly as it is reusable!

Nov 24, 2009. 8:27 AM

NurdRage says:

oh sorry, my bad.

What meant was: How do you make your own glow powder?

Nov 25, 2009. 4:10 AMcforchemistry (author) says:

I plan to make the Copper doped Zinc sulfide as Phosphor powder, I would probably make via precipitation of Zinc sulfide in Zn ion and copper complex ion solution. I am doing some testing on it, see if that work.

Nov 25, 2009. 10:57 PM

NurdRage says:

if you can get it to work, i'll mention your video in my upcoming video on phosphorescence.

Nov 26, 2009. 2:41 AMcforchemistry (author) says:

Ok, I will try in the coming two weeks.