How to make a light stick

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Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:32 pm

I saw this on you tube. I thought I would try it tomorrow.
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Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:34 pm

Im no chemist but i dont think that it would work. It is just a publicity stunt.
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Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:39 pm

yeah i saw that, it would probly work but not neearly as good as they portray it in the video.
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Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:51 pm

That is freakin awesome
There are other videos, and they make other things glow. I'd like to test a few possibilities, like just the baking soda and peroxide together. Different weak acids in place of the Dew...
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:01 am

it already been proved fake, and i think it was already on here
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:11 am

yes I do also believe that this was on here already and was proved fake. But some people got it to work if I remember correctly.
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:51 am

Like I said I haven't tried it yet but I will today. Sorry I didn't know it had been already posted.
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:52 am

How to make a light stick
Simply hollow it out :D
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:59 am

if talking already about light sticks what is the standard light stick diameter ??
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:27 am

now that was awesome :D


im totally making one of thoose!
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:16 am

Mr. Beaver wrote:if talking already about light sticks what is the standard light stick diameter ??
They come in all different sizes. I remember a glowing tomato, but not the mountain dew bottel.
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:56 am

The mountain dew is proved fake as far as I can remember, but the tomato was indeed true.
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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:22 pm

Both the mountain dew and glowing tomato are fake.

The glowing tomato would work if you had a source of pure phosphorous. The youtubs posts claim you can use strike anywhere or strike on box matches for the phosphorous but it doesn't work as advertised.

For the mountain dew, they probably just dumped a spent glowstick in the dew bottle. Adding the peroxide rejuvinates the glow stick chemicals.
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Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:29 pm

You guys are right. It's a hoax. I tried it twice. Nothing!
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