Sunday, July 8, 2012

Science Gone Awry - Glow in the Dark Bubbles


Sometimes what we set out to do and what gets accomplished are two distinctly different things.  Case in point is the glow-in-the-dark bubbles we attempted.  Having seen various incarnations of this project online, we decided to give it a try.  We started by putting some premade bubble liquid in a cup.  Next we cracked the glow stick and gave them a good shake to really get them going. After, we carefully clipped the end of the glow sticks and poured the contents into the bubble liquid. 

 (The glowing liquid appeared to be a bit thicker than water creating comparisons to molten lava.)  At first the liquids seemed to blend evenly giving us hope that our experiment would work, but after a few tries we realized that there was a definitely lack of luminosity in our bubbles.  We attempted another batch and this time gave it a vigorous mixing, but that only resulted in a more lackluster glowing. 

 In the end we admitted defeat and decided that the glowing liquid looked kind of cool in the glass.  Perhaps next time we will make liquid “fireflies” in a jar. 

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