Make Your Own Glow Sticks

Yes it is actually possible for you to make your own glow sticks. This looks cool no? If you are not used at doing such mixtures i would recommend buying an already made glow stick online. Nevertheless if you want to know how to make a glowstick i will tell you.

The most difficult part is finding what matieral and chemical ingredients are needed. You will first need to purchase luminol, peroxide, distilled water, hydrogen peroxide, copper sulfate pentahydrate, and sodium carbonate. When reading this you might think my god whats all of this ... far too complicated for me. Well in fact once you have these ingredients it is rather simple.

1) Mix one liter of distilled water with hydrogen peroxide. I would recommend doing this in a container if possible! Then put it aside for the end.
2) Mix in a second container 4 grams of sodium carbonate with again a liter of water.
3) Add in this second container 0.4 grams of copper sulfate and finally 0.2 grams of luminol.
4) Once this is done mix container 1 with container 2. It should now normally glow!

Put it in a tube or in a necklace and you are finished! Not so complicated hey? But i would not recommend you doing it because the chemical mixture is dangerous to touche and manipulate. Also its probably cheaper buying an already made glowstick online...so...