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ARCHIVE
2010
jan
• tanja's black light dance party
dec
• tootsie roll wrappers colors and flavors
nov
• stephen vitiello's four color
sound
sept
• a rainbow of antioxidants
colors
aug
• floor stain colors
june
• wildflowers cataloged by color
may
• tennis court colors
april
• morandi's neutral colors
march
• grid colorists
february
• black as film noir
january
• flood of toxic minerals used in paints
2008
december
november
october
september
august
july
june
may
april
black light and glow rings
Using black light, the gin and tonic glows in
the dark.
Photo taken of Tanja by Jeff in January, 2009
The colors we see are determined by the wavelength of light energy. Unlike some insects, humans can only view the spectrum from red to violet. However, other invisible “colors” exist above and below this spectrum.
The “color” above red is called infra-red and the color below violet is called ultraviolet. Ultraviolet light will cause fluorescent or phosphorescent pigments to fluoresce, emitting visible light. – Glow Inc. Link
The black light experiment
happens again at Tanja's
annual party with another gin and tonic in
January 2010.
Party glow rings.
The glow light is made of two parts which when mixed together
create the chemical reaction which makes them glow.
4 g sodium carbonate
0.2 g luminol
0.5 g ammonium carbonate
0.4 g copper sulfate pentahydrate
approx. 1 litre of distilled water.
50 ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide.
Glow
sticks work by a chemical reaction called “chemiluminescence” which causes
light to be generated. (That's a trivia question for some party games!)
By breaking up the word "chemiluminescence" into 2 parts, chemi
and luminescence we can better understand. Luminescence is emission of
light not caused by a rise in temperature (the object emitting light
stays cold). The light is released by atoms returning from "excited" (charged)
state to normal "ground" state. It means, an object which glows,
first must absorb energy to get into "excited state." That
energy will be released (in form of light) by the object returning to
the ground state of energy. –
China Bessen Glow Technology Ltd. Link
October Days, 2008
about: green fluorescent protein
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