well i just watched something about it but you can watch video its kinda hard explain so here is the link http://video.about.com/chemistry/How-to-Make-Glowing-Water.htm
The answer is a Black light and Tonic Water. Tonic water contains a chemical called quinine which makes it glow bright blue when the water is exposed to black light.You take a bowl and put water or Tonic water just in case you want to drink it.Then you put highlighter ink in the water then stir the ink in the water. It looks kinda weird, but then you put the black light over it and it GLOWS.
Leave it in for an hour. Squeezing it will definitely help. It won't really be glow in the dark unless it's a glow in the dark highlighter, but it will fluoresce under a blacklight
Neither of these two examples glows of their own right. Both materials reflect light waves that impinge on them. [hint. consider looking at them in a dark room.]These two materials fluoresce due to their component matter fluorescing under ultra violet light. Thus they appear to be reflect more light than is incident.You can easily demonstrate this by putting an UV absorber between the light source and the object.And as to the question - the highlighter is designed to draw attention to the mark - an important property. So we would expect the fluorescence of tonic water to be rather unimportant, whereas it is a design property for the highlighter.
well I think a good question would be, what is in the highlighter that gives off its glow
yellow, green, blue, orange, and pink. ps.yellow works the best
you cut the highlighter in half and take out the felt tip and you put it in a small amount of water. After you put the felt tip in a small ,amount of water you put it under a black light and the water should glow. The best color to use is a yellow highlighter.
get a yellow highlighter, and a cup of water, empty the ink from the highlighter into the water, shake it around a bit, now under a fluorescent or black light the water will glow!
use a blue light instead of black light
This is a cool experiment for my fourth grader but she also needs to understand why the liquid glows.
It depends on the highlighter and how you are putting the highlighter felt in the tonic water.
The answer is a Black light and Tonic Water. Tonic water contains a chemical called quinine which makes it glow bright blue when the water is exposed to black light.You take a bowl and put water or Tonic water just in case you want to drink it.Then you put highlighter ink in the water then stir the ink in the water. It looks kinda weird, but then you put the black light over it and it GLOWS.
Put radium in it. Just kidding please don't put radium in it, as it's radioactive and causes cancer. I would suggest putting glow-sticks or anything glow-in-the-dark in it that's safe to put in water. I've also heard of squeezing hi-lighter ink into the water
Leave it in for an hour. Squeezing it will definitely help. It won't really be glow in the dark unless it's a glow in the dark highlighter, but it will fluoresce under a blacklight
AnswerSimple, you grab a bowl fill it half way with water crack open a highlighter (prefer yellow) squeeze the ink out of the highlighter into the bowl of water and turn on your black light and you have glow in the dark water.(:
Neither of these two examples glows of their own right. Both materials reflect light waves that impinge on them. [hint. consider looking at them in a dark room.]These two materials fluoresce due to their component matter fluorescing under ultra violet light. Thus they appear to be reflect more light than is incident.You can easily demonstrate this by putting an UV absorber between the light source and the object.And as to the question - the highlighter is designed to draw attention to the mark - an important property. So we would expect the fluorescence of tonic water to be rather unimportant, whereas it is a design property for the highlighter.
light that is not under water
They live deep deep under alot of water, at rock bottom, were the water is not blue it is a dark black color.