Glow Sticks - A new year's saving grace

Chemistry in Everyday Life

Our 2020 new year’s celebration had to look quite different this year. The Belgian government had to restrict contact, so no extended family, and no fireworks this year. All for very good, Corona-related reasons. This meant for us that we had to find an alternative, so that we could still give our 3-year old daughter a little spectacle. With glow sticks and chemiluminescence in our back packs, we then went on to celebrate a very special and very different new year. This podcast we shall use to understand chemiluminescence, the phenomenon that allowed for us to have a nice evening 😊

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Sources

Glowsticks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_stick

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuchtstab

Luminescence and Chemiluminescence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminescence

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumineszenz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemiluminescence

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemilumineszenz

Glow stick compounds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphenyl_oxalate

Chemiluminescence of Glow Sticks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peroxyoxalate

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peroxyoxalat-Chemilumineszenz

Crime Scene Investigation and Luminol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol

Additional reading on the science of luminescence

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeregter_Zustand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_level

American Cyanamid and Bell Labs – Two companies involved in developing glow sticks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Cyanamid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs