spudpeel Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 I've looked into how glow sticks work, but wonder if there would be any way to make edible ones using foodstuffs?.. I know that quinine is fluorescent, and apparently so is Vit-B12 and chlorophyll, but are there any other chemicals i could use to make them? Also, are there any chemiluminescent reactions that could be used?
Tetrahedrite Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 You would not want to use either quinine or Vit B12 (cyano cobolamine) because both are toxic in large amounts
jdurg Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 Not to mention the fact that quinine is horribly, horribly, HORRIBLY bitter and nobody in their right mind would knowingly ingest any large quantity of it. (though you may be fortuneate and be unable to taste quinine. If you can taste it, then once is all you'll ever need).
YT2095 Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 neat quinine is quite nasty I gotta admit ya shouldn`t have said anything and asked him get a webcam online before testing it, that would have been a Real Kodak Moment potassium aluminuim sulphate is like sweetest sugar by comparison!
spudpeel Posted January 16, 2006 Author Posted January 16, 2006 I wasn't going to use pure quinine, i did mean just using tonic water. Im sure the website i looked on said Vit B12, and it said that it would glow bright yellow. It could easily have been B2, which if you've never seen before is ridiculously yellow! My work experience was at a vitamin mixing factory, and i came home caked in the stuff!
YT2095 Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 it might be worth trying to find out what that liquid is inside spirit levels too, and maybe a place that makes them might sell you a few liters of it? I`m not saying it`ll be Edible exactly, but I shouldn`t think they`de sell something that was Too toxic either, when you consider the abuse they get on a construction site.
spudpeel Posted January 20, 2006 Author Posted January 20, 2006 My intrigue into Uv stuff took me to ebay to find a cheap UV tube.... I found a bid for 40!!! 9" Uv tubes, and i managed to get them for, wait for it.......... £7.50!! Theyr working lovely, I just made tonic water blue and a few mins ago found out that they cost £10 each.. Just thought id share my happiness with the world!
Ferdinand Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Spirit levels have fluroscein(mispelt i think), I believe.
Bluenoise Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Well you could mix luciferase (the glowing protein from fire flies) with ATP and eat that. Should be fairly non toxic. Though luciferase is pretty expensive stuff, and you'd have a hard time storing and working with it without denaturing it.
Bluenoise Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Actually you could probably clone the luciferase gene into some sort of vegetable or fruit and eat that. I know it glows pretty nicely when cloned into tabacoo.
d22k Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 This maybe awfully foolish of me, but seeing your reactions to quinine id kinda like to try it. I like the idea of something bitter to the extreme, to the point where i'd never forget it... assuming it would do me no harm. Just curious is all! I guess its like trying to imagine a colour youve never seen, i just cant imagine something so horribly bitter, i dont doubt it, but i'd like to try it and see! Is there any way i can extract it from tonic water, or maybe buy it? (I suspect the latter would be expensive so id like to avoid that)
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