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Fun with luminous chemistry

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MAKE pal Rob writes - "Ran across this while looking for something else- it's from a 1937 Popular Science article on fun with luminous chemistry.
Basically, the idea is that one funnel has a solution of luminol and sodium hydroxide in water, and the other funnel has a solution of pottasium ferricyanide and hydrogen peroxide in water. I remember seeing articles about this sort of thing as kid and wishing I could get my hands on some of those chemicals. Doing a quick google, it seems that luminol is used by detectives to detect blood, and you can buy it on the internet. " [via] - Link.

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Posted by: RobCruickshank on October 8, 2006 at 1:11 PM

Here's a page about playing with lumniol:
http://ian-albert.com/misc/luminol.php
Careful with that razor, if you want to play CSI!

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Posted by: Shadyman on October 8, 2006 at 9:11 PM

pottasium ferricyanide

Did you mean: potassium ferricyanide

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Posted by: RobCruickshank on October 9, 2006 at 9:09 AM

Oh, probably, yes.

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