What are Glow Sticks?
Glow Sticks, commonly known as lighsticks also, are single use, transparent plastic tubes filled with two non toxic chemicals, one being Phenyl Oxalate and the other being Hydrogen Peroxide. You bend the glow stick slightly, and the two chemicals will mix together and then the glow will begin. Typically, the light will last for around twelve hours depending on the size, shape and quality. All the glowsticks from WELLGLOW are high quality and will last more than twelve hours! There are several varieties of glow stick. They come in all shapes and sizes from one inch and four millimetres thick, up to twenty inches and thirty millimetres thick. They come in a variety of shapes with standard and tapered finishes. Some glosticks incorporate a hook and eye for attaching to various surfaces; others will include a plastic cap with an eye for you to thread the attached cord to tie it around your neck or onto another object. Glow sticks can be used for all kinds of purposes. They were first inven
Perhaps you’ve seen glow sticks adding a fun light to a Halloween costume or the same glow in necklace or bracelet form at a party. Glow sticks are typically a plastic cylinder about four or five inches (10 to 13 cm) long and less than an inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Wearable glow products are made of a more flexible plastic and take on many shapes. No matter what their form, glow sticks depend on a chemical process known as chemiluminesence to produce their light. In chemiluminesence, a chemical reaction causes a release of energy. Electrons in the chemicals become excited and rise to a higher energy level. When the electrons drop back to normal levels, they produce energy in the form of light. The chemicals used to create this reaction in glow sticks are usually hydrogen peroxide and a mixture of phenyl oxalate ester and the fluorescent dye that gives the glow stick its color. The hydrogen peroxide is contained in a small glass tube that floats within the mixture inside the plastic glo
Glow sticks are made of different types of chemicals which when mixed together create a chemical reaction that emits light. Most glow sticks on the market today are in the form of plastic tubes that contain the different types of chemicals. Inside the plastic tube, there are liquid chemicals and a glass tube that are floating in the liquid chemicals. Inside the glass tube, it contains another type of liquid chemicals. Now we know the basic components of glow sticks, let’s see how to activate glow sticks. To activate, simply bend the glow sticks plastic tube enough to break the inner glow tube. Once the inner glass tube breaks, the chemicals inside inner glass tube come out and mix with the chemicals outside the glass tube and glowing reaction starts, thus the light is generated. Depends on the amount of chemicals put into glow sticks, the chemical reaction, or the glowing process can last from a few minutes to a few days. As glow sticks products are mostly used for entertainment, the t
