How To Make a 100ft Glow Stick!!!

How to make a 100 ft glow stick. Brighter than Electroluminescent wire and self-powered. This can be used to decorate, glow stuff up, or create all kinds of awesome effects.

Warning: TCPO is carcinogenic and you should wear gloves and masks while working with it.

The procedure is simple, mix together 500mg of 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene and 17g of TCPO in 500mL of diethyl phthalate solvent and heat it up until it dissolves. Then top it up to about 2.1 liters and add 120mL of hydrogen peroxide and 10g of sodium acetate. Shake thoroughly and draw into a 100 ft glow stick with an inner diameter of 3/8". Suction by a vacuum pump is recommended.

To prevent spilling the ends should be capped with brass or plastic compression fittings. Leave 5+ feet of space in the tube to allow for expansion of the chemicals depending on temperature.

Glow stick will last for about 6 hours. Use more TCPO if a longer glow is needed.

Possibly the world's biggest glow stick.

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[DATWEIRDGUY1]

The most interesting things you could come up with were, jump rope, hula hooping and wraping it around a tree????????

[NurdRage]

@DATWEIRDGUY1 Which is why i directly ask you to suggest something better.... (psst, you haven't).

:)

[ihartjames1]

It would be awesome if you could put several colors into one tube, and use them as temporary christmas lights or just for decoration. or even Red and blue with white in between for the 4th, or green for st. patty's

[NurdRage]

@ihartjames1 Yeah, different colors in the same tube is an idea, i have to be careful not to mix them while filling. But i'll see what i can do.

[fozzydabeer]

You should get a bunch of weather balloons and fill with helium. The get your tubing a make a fake UFO looking thing attach the balloons and freak some people out at night.

[ernestoagosto1]

1000 feet long???... NERDGAZIMMMM

[kyidyl]

You know, you might want to call Guinness and see if you can actually set record for this...maybe make a video about making the worlds longest glow stick. There's a longest glow in the dark necklace, and a longest glow stick chain, but not continuous glow stick (I can't add links, but you can search for "glow" on Guinness' website.).

I have no idea what you'd use it for though... x.x Maybe get a photographer friend and take some really neat pictures, possibly underwater?

[dustinbmxcs2]

Put it on a semitruck plus trailer carying cars

[SonOfEnkiGodOfWisdom]

Emergency road side flares(Glowstix).

[kevvyk23]

Fishing!!!



[Core297]

Wrap it around you body and go raving. :D

[halofreaker132]

show this to a 5 year old, they'll think it's radioactive!....... well, at least think it'll kill you.. they probably wouldn't know the word 'radioactive' yet..... lol

[zsakul2]

i fucking love you......

[CaptainAthiest]

Nice How much is the cost.

[LOLOVF3]

How do they make the bikes glow in the black berry bold commercial ?