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
Chemiluminescence of Glow Sticks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peroxyoxalate
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peroxyoxalat-Chemilumineszenz
Crime Scene Investigation and Luminol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol
Additional reading on the science of luminescence
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeregter_Zustand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_level
American Cyanamid and Bell Labs – Two companies involved in developing glow sticks