Glow Sticks - A new year's saving grace

Chemistry in Everyday Life

English - January 17, 2021 23:26 - 15 minutes - 13.1 MB
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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