If you use peroxide you will notice the light starting to fade within about half a minute. Avoid contact with the contents of the glow stick. Clean off any residue from your scissors or another cutting tool.
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The familiar chemiluminescenct effect produced by common glow sticks comes mixing hydrogen peroxide and diphenyl oxalate with a fluorophore dye ; the chemical reaction between the hydrogen peroxide and diphenyl oxalate releases energy that excites the dye, and the dye subsequently relaxes by releasing a photon, producing a glow effect.
But Mountain Dew contains no diphenyl oxalate, and the addition of baking soda i. The results claimed in the original video were likely created by the surreptitious introduction of a glow solution into the Mountain Dew bottle, either through off-screen manipulation or via a substitution covered by editing. In August , a video circulated on social media sites asserted it took two Starbust candies to make glowing Mountain Dew. That too was false.
Fact Checks. Or it's an accident waiting to happen. Either way, it certainly looks cool. It couldn't taste any worse than regular Mountain Dew. Joking aside, putting chemicals in food containers is just asking for trouble. I work at a household hazardous waste site and I couldn't even begin to count the times people bring in some horrible crud in a food container that they never got around to, or just didn't bother labelling.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for engaging in irresponsible and potentially hazardous activities, just keep things within reason and avoid creating potential hazards for others. Play safe, folks. Considering hydrogen peroxide can kill you I wouldn't recommended drinking it.
Perhaps the uploader should put this in his title. Because there are a lot of morons out there who would try to drink this. Did you make this project?
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