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Chemiluminescence and Fluorescence

Kakcoo

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Fun with chemiluminescence, fluorescence and a blueray laser (110mA). The gooey stuff is from a glow stick. It's heavyer than water, but soluble in oil (which everyone knows is lighter than water). Gives some neat effects. Laser is at the end of the video (the fluorescence part). I didn't know any of this before i started playing with it. I first tried water as a solvent for the coloured liquid, but when it just fell to the bottom, I knew I were in for a good time. The chemiluminescence faded rather quickly when the chemicals got exposed to oil. I then proceeded to play with my labby. I got rid of the water when all the lipids were on top. I don't have a separation funnel, so that was the easiest way, I think. :yh:

 
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Nice! I wish that they had made my old lava lamp (yes, I still have my original lava lamp) with fluorescent material.

Another thing you can do with water, is to dip a "highlighter" into it. The laser beam shining through the water fluoresces nicely. I had an unpopulated 400 gal aquarium before I moved out. I soaked a yellow highlighter in it. The lines bouncing around in that tank were uber cool.

Peace,
dave
 
Nice. Thanks for the info. I've heard highlighters work, but I didn't know they work that well. I'll try that. :)
 
The chemiluminescent effect will not work well in oil, as it depends on hydrogen peroxide to work, and that will remain in the watery fraction. If you want to get just the fluorescent die, you can carefully open a lightstick making sure you dont break the glass vial inside that contains the peroxide.

What comes out is a mixture of cyalume and dye. You can dissolve this in nonpolar solvents for further experiments, though i suspect that isopropanol will be a pretty decent solvent too.
 
Nice video! Thanks for sharing. Lots of things fluoresce. Club soda (blue), peanut butter (green, still glows after laser removed), Jack Daniels (yellowish), some lamp oils for example. Highlighter juice in water works very well, especially the yellow and orange.
 
Prototype said:
Wow, Dave, that's monstrous, must've cost a fortune. Was one highliter really enough to effect the whole thing?
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Actually, I got it for free. A man I knew from the hobby (from years ago) had to move and couldn't wait to list it. He offered it to me for free *IF* I could get there that day to pick it up. Needless to say, I was there in an hour!

In my former life I had up to 5 tanks @ up to 300 gal at once. I have a fish that I donated on display at Sea World San Diego.

One "large" highlighter was enough. I opened it and "squeezed" all the juice out of it ;) (More than once)

Peace,
dave
 
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Lucky you Dave, I'd have been there as soon as was possible too, that was an insane deal, and, man, you had lots of fish.
 
That's really cool - you have a lava lamp w/o the lamp. It would be nice if you could seal it off in a clear container like that.
 
Dave you got to get some Piranhas and watch them destroy a mouse. Its um ... "uber" cool. ;)
 
daguin said:
Nice! I wish that they had made my old lava lamp (yes, I still have my original lava lamp) with fluorescent material.

Another thing you can do with water, is to dip a "highlighter" into it. The laser beam shining through the water fluoresces nicely. I had an unpopulated 400 gal aquarium before I moved out. I soaked a yellow highlighter in it. The lines bouncing around in that tank were uber cool.

Peace,
dave
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wat does the origional lava lamp look like?
 
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