Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Glow stick

Index Glow stick

A glow stick is a self-contained, short-term light-source. [1]

51 relations: Additive color, American Cyanamid, Balloon-carried light effect, Bell Labs, Bis-(2,4,5-trichloro-6-(pentyloxycarbonyl)phenyl)oxalate, Blacklight, Camping, Carbon dioxide, Carcinogen, Chemical & Engineering News, Chemical decomposition, Chemical reaction, Chemiluminescence, Concert, Diphenyl oxalate, Emergency medical services, Fluorescence, Fluorophore, Forbidden mechanism, Guinness World Records, Infrared, Laboratory, Marching band, Military, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Nightclub, Patent, Phenol, Photon, Plastic, Poi (performance art), Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, Rave, Recreational diving, Rhodamine 6G, Rhodamine B, Rubrene, South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, Tritium radioluminescence, Ultraviolet, Violanthrone, Wavelength, Woodward–Hoffmann rules, 1,2-Dioxetanedione, 1-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene, 2+2 photocycloaddition, 2-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene, 2-Chloro-9,10-diphenylanthracene, 5,12-Bis(phenylethynyl)naphthacene, 9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene, ..., 9,10-Diphenylanthracene. Expand index (1 more) »

Additive color

Additive color is a method to create color by mixing a number of different light colors, with shades of red, green, and blue being the most common primary colors used in additive color system.

New!!: Glow stick and Additive color · See more »

American Cyanamid

American Cyanamid Company was a leading American conglomerate which became one of the nation's top 100 manufacturing companies during the 1970s and 1980s, according to the Fortune 500 listings at the time.

New!!: Glow stick and American Cyanamid · See more »

Balloon-carried light effect

A balloon-carried light effect is a special effect carried by a balloon, which can be fixed with a rope to the ground or free-flying.

New!!: Glow stick and Balloon-carried light effect · See more »

Bell Labs

Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia.

New!!: Glow stick and Bell Labs · See more »

Bis-(2,4,5-trichloro-6-(pentyloxycarbonyl)phenyl)oxalate

Bis-oxalate (also known as bis(2,4,5-trichloro-6-carbopentoxyphenyl) oxalate or CPPO) is a solid ester whose oxidation products are responsible for the chemiluminescence in a glowstick.

New!!: Glow stick and Bis-(2,4,5-trichloro-6-(pentyloxycarbonyl)phenyl)oxalate · See more »

Blacklight

A blacklight (or often black light), also referred to as a UV-A light, Wood's lamp, or simply ultraviolet light, is a lamp that emits long-wave (UV-A) ultraviolet light and not much visible light.

New!!: Glow stick and Blacklight · See more »

Camping

Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home in a shelter, such as a tent.

New!!: Glow stick and Camping · See more »

Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.

New!!: Glow stick and Carbon dioxide · See more »

Carcinogen

A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis, the formation of cancer.

New!!: Glow stick and Carcinogen · See more »

Chemical & Engineering News

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) is a weekly trade magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical information in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.

New!!: Glow stick and Chemical & Engineering News · See more »

Chemical decomposition

Chemical decomposition, analysis or breakdown is the separation of a single chemical compound into its two or more elemental parts or to simpler compounds.

New!!: Glow stick and Chemical decomposition · See more »

Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.

New!!: Glow stick and Chemical reaction · See more »

Chemiluminescence

Chemiluminescence (also chemoluminescence) is the emission of light (luminescence), as the result of a chemical reaction.

New!!: Glow stick and Chemiluminescence · See more »

Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.

New!!: Glow stick and Concert · See more »

Diphenyl oxalate

Diphenyl oxalate (trademark name Cyalume) is a solid ester whose oxidation products are responsible for the chemiluminescence in a glowstick.

New!!: Glow stick and Diphenyl oxalate · See more »

Emergency medical services

Emergency medical services, also known as ambulance services or paramedic services (abbreviated to the initialism EMS, EMAS, EMARS or SAMU in some countries), are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care, transport to definitive care, and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves.

New!!: Glow stick and Emergency medical services · See more »

Fluorescence

Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

New!!: Glow stick and Fluorescence · See more »

Fluorophore

A fluorophore (or fluorochrome, similarly to a chromophore) is a fluorescent chemical compound that can re-emit light upon light excitation.

New!!: Glow stick and Fluorophore · See more »

Forbidden mechanism

In spectroscopy, a forbidden mechanism (forbidden transition or forbidden line) is a spectral line associated with absorption or emission of light by atomic nuclei, atoms, or molecules which undergo a transition that is not allowed by a particular selection rule but is allowed if the approximation associated with that rule is not made.

New!!: Glow stick and Forbidden mechanism · See more »

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

New!!: Glow stick and Guinness World Records · See more »

Infrared

Infrared radiation (IR) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore generally invisible to the human eye (although IR at wavelengths up to 1050 nm from specially pulsed lasers can be seen by humans under certain conditions). It is sometimes called infrared light.

New!!: Glow stick and Infrared · See more »

Laboratory

A laboratory (informally, lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

New!!: Glow stick and Laboratory · See more »

Marching band

A marching band is a group in which instrumental musicians perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition.

New!!: Glow stick and Marching band · See more »

Military

A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.

New!!: Glow stick and Military · See more »

Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake is a part of Navy Region Southwest under Commander, Navy Installations Command and is located in the Western Mojave Desert region of California, approximately north of Los Angeles.

New!!: Glow stick and Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake · See more »

Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

New!!: Glow stick and Nightclub · See more »

Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.

New!!: Glow stick and Patent · See more »

Phenol

Phenol, also known as phenolic acid, is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula C6H5OH.

New!!: Glow stick and Phenol · See more »

Photon

The photon is a type of elementary particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force (even when static via virtual particles).

New!!: Glow stick and Photon · See more »

Plastic

Plastic is material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.

New!!: Glow stick and Plastic · See more »

Poi (performance art)

Poi refers to both a style of performing art and the equipment used for engaging in poi performance.

New!!: Glow stick and Poi (performance art) · See more »

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, also polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons) are hydrocarbons—organic compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen—that are composed of multiple aromatic rings (organic rings in which the electrons are delocalized).

New!!: Glow stick and Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon · See more »

Rave

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is an organized dance party at a nightclub, outdoor festival, warehouse, or other private property typically featuring performances by DJs, playing a seamless flow of electronic dance music.

New!!: Glow stick and Rave · See more »

Recreational diving

Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment.

New!!: Glow stick and Recreational diving · See more »

Rhodamine 6G

Rhodamine 6G is a highly fluorescent rhodamine family dye.

New!!: Glow stick and Rhodamine 6G · See more »

Rhodamine B

Rhodamine B is a chemical compound and a dye.

New!!: Glow stick and Rhodamine B · See more »

Rubrene

Rubrene (5,6,11,12-tetraphenyltetracene) is a red colored polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.

New!!: Glow stick and Rubrene · See more »

South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society

The South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) is a primary source of information for diving and hyperbaric medicine physiology worldwide.

New!!: Glow stick and South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society · See more »

Tritium radioluminescence

Tritium lumination is the use of gaseous tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, to create visible light.

New!!: Glow stick and Tritium radioluminescence · See more »

Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.

New!!: Glow stick and Ultraviolet · See more »

Violanthrone

Violanthrone, also known as Dibenzanthrone, is an organic compound that serves as a vat dye and a precursor to other vat dyes.

New!!: Glow stick and Violanthrone · See more »

Wavelength

In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.

New!!: Glow stick and Wavelength · See more »

Woodward–Hoffmann rules

The Woodward–Hoffmann rules (or the pericyclic selection rules), devised by Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann, are a set of rules used to rationalize or predict certain aspects of the stereochemical outcome and activation energy of pericyclic reactions, an important class of reactions in organic chemistry.

New!!: Glow stick and Woodward–Hoffmann rules · See more »

1,2-Dioxetanedione

The chemical compound 1,2-dioxetanedione, or 1,2-dioxacyclobutane-3,4-dione, often called peroxyacid ester, is an unstable oxide of carbon (an oxocarbon) with formula C2O4.

New!!: Glow stick and 1,2-Dioxetanedione · See more »

1-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene

1-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene is a fluorescent dye used in lightsticks.

New!!: Glow stick and 1-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene · See more »

2+2 photocycloaddition

The photocycloaddition is a cycloaddition-type reaction – it generally entails the formation of new molecules by the reaction of two unsaturated molecules via two atoms from each molecule (hence "").

New!!: Glow stick and 2+2 photocycloaddition · See more »

2-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene

2-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene is a fluorescent dye used in lightsticks.

New!!: Glow stick and 2-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene · See more »

2-Chloro-9,10-diphenylanthracene

2-Chloro-9,10-diphenylanthracene is a fluorescent dye used in glow sticks for a blue-green glow.

New!!: Glow stick and 2-Chloro-9,10-diphenylanthracene · See more »

5,12-Bis(phenylethynyl)naphthacene

5,12-Bis(phenylethynyl)naphthacene is a fluorescent dye used in lightsticks.

New!!: Glow stick and 5,12-Bis(phenylethynyl)naphthacene · See more »

9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene

9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene (BPEA) is an aromatic hydrocarbon with the chemical formula is C30H18.

New!!: Glow stick and 9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene · See more »

9,10-Diphenylanthracene

9,10-Diphenylanthracene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.

New!!: Glow stick and 9,10-Diphenylanthracene · See more »

Redirects here:

Chemical light, Chemical lights, Chemlight, Colourful Glow Stick, Colourful Glow stick, Cyalume stick, Cyalumes, Glow Rod, Glow Stick, Glow Sticks, Glow rod, Glow sticks, Glowstick, Glowsticks, Light stick, Lightstick.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_stick

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »