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