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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...

Welcome everybody to a new Snooping Session. Let's start with a question: Have you ever seen amazing chemical reactions? I'm sure you have, at least once. Thanks to the Internet, plenty of videos are made every day showing these wonderful processes. But most of the time you just see a video, without explaining why what you are witnessing is happening. Well, my Snoopers, ChEmIcAmAzInG will do the job. Here to simply describe the reality behind the wonder.... Let's start with one of the most common reactions. Maybe some of you have tried this before. I personally have, and by the time I did it it gets very, very, very messy. This is the Mentos Diet Coke Geyser. Everybody that has a computer and a social media should know this trick, and if you have ever wondered WHY the reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos is so strong.... Keep reading for the answer. First of all, it should be noticed this is not a “strict ingredients reaction” ; lots of other carbonated beverages wi...