"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
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mk52815 says: Nov 21, 2009. 7:35 PM

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

cforchemistry (author) in reply to mk52815Nov 22, 2009. 12:37 AM

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

NurdRage in reply to cforchemistryNov 24, 2009. 4:56 AM

Oh cool! how do you make it?

cforchemistry (author) in reply to NurdRageNov 24, 2009. 6:55 AM

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!

NurdRage in reply to cforchemistryNov 24, 2009. 8:27 AM

oh sorry, my bad.

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

cforchemistry (author) in reply to NurdRageNov 25, 2009. 4:10 AM

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.

NurdRage in reply to cforchemistryNov 25, 2009. 10:57 PM

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

cforchemistry (author) in reply to NurdRageNov 26, 2009. 2:41 AM

Ok, I will try in the coming two weeks.