Total Share 26 Tweet 2 Pin Prep Time 3 minutes. Total Time 3 minutes. Instructions Add one ounce of vodka to a fun chemistry beaker, flask, or a traditional cocktail rocks glass.
Notes You need a black light to get these cocktails to "glow". Recommended Products As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases. Comments Very cool! What fun! How fun are these! Thanks for sharing the recipes with us at the Talk Of The Town party. Do you have to use the monster Maxx or can you use any monster? Hey Brandon, This may have gotten lost in the chatter: It is the Vitamin B that makes it glow, so any energy drink with that will work.
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Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Tonic water isn't the only substance that contains light-producing phosphors — plain old highlighter markers work in a similar way as well. Start as before by filling a clear container like a glass jar with water. Note that this method will ruin your highlighter marker — it won't work when you're done. Take the ink tube out of the highlighter.
If you just drop a highlighter into a jar of water, it won't bleed ink very quickly through the strip of felt at the tip. Instead, you'll want to take the entire ink tube out. To do this: Uncap the highlighter. Use a pair of pliers or your hands if you don't mind getting messy to pull the felt out of the tip. Use pliers to pry off the bottom of the marker.
Carefully pull the ink tube out, taking care not to spill or mark your clothing. Place the felt stick and ink tube into the jar. Drop the felt, the ink tube, and any other ink you can get out of the marker into the water. The ink should bleed into the water, changing its color. Cut or break the ink tube if needed to get the ink out. Mix the water well so that the color is even.
You can leave the ink tube and felt in the water when the ink is done mixing or you can fish them out — it's up to you. Shine a black light at the water. Just like with the tonic water method above, a dark room and a black light will make the highlighter ink in the water glow brightly. You can also tape a flashlight to the bottom of the container to make a colored light however, the "neon" effect you'd get with a black light is lost. Method 3. Find fluorescent paint at a craft store.
The paint must be a tempera or water-soluble base so that it will mix with the water. You can even purchase glow-in-the-dark craft paint for an added glow.
Similar to highlighters, any neon color of paint will work, but lemon yellow and lime green are the most effective. Pour the paint into a cup of water.
To increase the glow the water will put out, use as much paint as you are able. Several tablespoons can be used for a single cup of water. Mix the paint thoroughly. Use a stirring stick or a similar tool — not a kitchen spoon. Make sure that the paint is completely dissolved into your cup of water before proceeding. Warm or hot water will help to dissolve the paint faster. If you let the water sit for a long time, the paint may begin to separate.
Prepare this glow water for use immediately after stirring. Test the water. Turn off all the lights in the room and run a black light over your glow water. Be careful when handling this type of glowing water — since it contains paint, it can cause major stains in fabric. This mixture is not safe to drink. Method 4. Fill a container with water and grab your materials. In this method, you'll use water, glow sticks, and several other common ingredients to make water that doesn't need a black light to glow.
As in the methods above, start by filling a clear container, like a bottle or jar, with water. You'll also need a few other things before you get started: One or more glow sticks Scissors Dish soap Hydrogen peroxide Waterproof gloves. Crack your glowstick s. Take each glowstick, find the glass vial within, and bend the stick until you feel a "crack. Under an ultraviolet "black light," the quinine in tonic water makes the water fluoresce a brilliant, bright blue even though only a relatively small amount of quinine is dissolved in the water.
In general, something fluoresces because it has absorbed light energy, which makes it excited, and then it releases or emits light as it returns to its normal, unexcited state. Part of why we find things that glow under ultraviolet lights—such as some minerals, fish and tonic water—to be fascinating is because we cannot see the ultraviolet light they absorb but can see the visible light they emit which is blue in the case of quinine.
Observations and results When you added a few drops of bleach to the tonic water, did it stop fluorescing under the ultraviolet black light? You should have clearly seen that the tonic water glowed a brilliant, bright blue color when you put it under the ultraviolet black light before adding bleach.
This is because the invisible ultraviolet light from the black light is absorbed by the quinine in the tonic water, and this excites the quinine. When the quinine becomes unexcited, it releases visible blue light that we see.
After adding and mixing in a few drops of bleach with the tonic water, however, it should have stopped glowing. Bleach is an oxidizing agent and can disrupt and break certain chemical bonds specifically carbon—carbon double bonds. It is in these chemical bonds that the quinine absorbs the ultraviolet light, so by adding bleach to the tonic water it makes the quinine unable to absorb ultraviolet light anymore, and so it can no longer emit blue light.
Cleanup You can pour the very diluted bleach down a drain. Thoroughly clean anything that came in contact with the bleach and rinse your hands. This activity brought to you in partnership with Science Buddies. Already a subscriber? Sign in. I think that these cocktails would be so much fun for a Halloween party, and the various Scientific Beakers, Flasks, and Graduated Cylinders are the perfect items to enjoy them.
I used this LED Black Light which gave quite a good bit of light and could easily light a small room for a party. Are you planning for a Halloween Party? Wow, these are really cool, thanks for sharing! Your post was my feature pick at OverTheMoon this week. Visit me on Sunday evening and to see your feature! I invite you to leave more links to be shared and commented upon.
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