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ChEmIcAmAzInG - Glowing in the dark

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It's so magical... A night at the disco. Flashing colors all around. A little glowing bracelet around your wrist. The music is so loud you don’t care about everything. But maybe a little question makes its way into your mind… How does this stuff glow? Well, here I am to tell you why. All the glowing in the dark products contain a chemical structures called phosphors. This name is given to any substance that emits light after being energized in some way. Thousands of chemicals can be classified as phosphors. The great variety of chemicals with this property permits lots of degrees of brightness, color, and length of time they glow after being energized. A phosphorescent eagle There are three main types of ways these phosphors can absorb energy and then releasing it: Phosphorescence, Chemiluminescence and Radioluminescence. Phosphorescent structures , most common for glow in the dark items, are things like the glow in the dark stars many people put on their ce...