How to Make Glowing Water

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How to Make Glowing Water

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Here are the steps taken to make glowing water. You will need a beaker, gloves, pipette, eye protection, a mix stick, glow stick, water, and some dish soap (written version)

Step 1

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Take your glow stick and cut off one end, be careful of the glass inside.

Step 2

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Cut open the other end of the tube to make it easier to get the glass tube out

Step 3

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Take out the glass tube inside of the plastice tube, this contains your diphenyl oxalate.

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Fill your beaker with water

Step 4

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Cut of one end of the glass, pointed into the beaker

Step 5

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Cut of the other end of glass, make sure it is pointed into the beaker so all the liquid makes it into the beaker

Step 6

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Use your pipette to take out some of the hydrogen peroxide.

Step 7

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Add the hydrogen peroxide to the water and diphenyl oxalate.

Step 8

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Add dish soap so the diphenyl oxalate and hydrogen peroxide can mix.

Step 9

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Mix it all together and your concoction should glow