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Informative Essay On Glow Sticks Luminescence

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Glow sticks are colorful, fun, and at sometimes helpful in cases because of their luminescence, luminescence is the emission of light by a substance that has not been heated, as in fluorescence and phosphorescence. Luminescence is caused by an object being subjected to an outside source of energy. Glow sticks are composed of diethyl phthalate (solvent), a fluorescent dye, TCPO, sodium acetate, and hydrogen peroxide. The earliest patent says they were invented in June 1965 by Bernard Dubrow and Eugene Daniel Guth. Since 1962, the military has found many uses for glow sticks which are used in; non-tactical military ops, safety, and night operations. Glow sticks are now put in military safety kits to mark things or places at night. Diethyl

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