goldrazr Posted March 16, 2004 Posted March 16, 2004 hi there i am a student doing a project on chemiluminescence and need help, there is not very much materials on any aspects except what is being done wiht it, if anyone has any reall info on the history, sceientists current progress in the field or techniques and equiptment involved it would be great if u could share it with me
fafalone Posted March 16, 2004 Posted March 16, 2004 Search for the term luciferin.. that's the protein responsible for the glow fireflies have... it will lead to lots of info on the subject.
Skye Posted March 16, 2004 Posted March 16, 2004 http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2002/fleming/intro.htm That has a brief history down the side which might be helpful, at least to give you some things to run searches on.
goldrazr Posted March 16, 2004 Author Posted March 16, 2004 thanks for the help guys it been huge in gettin me goin on this, anymore help would be definatly appreciated:D
YT2095 Posted March 17, 2004 Posted March 17, 2004 Hydrogen Peroxide is used with many other chems to initiate the light reaction maybe a quick look at these may help: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22chemiluminescence%22+hydrogen+peroxide those are all "wet" reactions, I`m not sure if you`de classify certain metalic sulphides or not though?
goldrazr Posted March 17, 2004 Author Posted March 17, 2004 u know im only a high school kid tryint to learn so i dun know nothin on declassifyin anything
goldrazr Posted March 17, 2004 Author Posted March 17, 2004 i also was wonderin in addition to my question of helping me learn if anyone know any simple experiments in which i could demonstrate chemiluninescence
YT2095 Posted March 17, 2004 Posted March 17, 2004 sure, if your teacher will give you Lab access and the chems you`ll need, ask for an ethanedioate ester and some hydrogen peroxide (9 vols should be fine). also an array of different dyes would be good, that way you could make all sorts of colors too
goldrazr Posted March 17, 2004 Author Posted March 17, 2004 does anyone know wat progress in he field is being made and wat techniques and equiptment is used or created for use in the field
YT2095 Posted March 17, 2004 Posted March 17, 2004 other than "glow-sticks" including the military variety, I know very little with regards to the "wet" technology. I`m more into doped nano crystals and electro luminessence as a sideline hobby (usualy when bored). so I`ll not be much help there, sorry
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