more holy bright hey guys welcome back
in the workshop we’ve got another fun
experiment using glow sticks today and
involves combining the glow stick fluid
with this decorative fountain it might
not be too hard to guess but we’re gonna
see if we can extract enough glow fluid
to put it into this fountain and
actually have its cycle with glowing
blue liquid so we have a whole ton of
these glow sticks we’re gonna crack them
open separate the two fluids within and
then we’ll put those into the fountain
I’m gonna try and separate it so one of
them is in the base and the other one is
in the little dishes up above so that as
the fountain starts running it starts
activating the glow hopefully we can get
that to work I think it would look
really cool if it does we’ve got a bunch
of rocks right here and these are
actually what I’m going to put down in
the base of this fountain this base is
actually what holds normally water in
our case glow fluid but it’s pretty big
and empty and that would use up a lot of
glow sticks and we already have a ton
but I wanted to cut down on the number
that we would need so I’m gonna use
these rocks to sort of fill the empty
spaces of this base so there’s still
enough fluid to cycle but not so much
that we’re just wasting glow sticks I
also have these little rocks in a bag
those are going to be a decorative
element on top
look it’s scattered all around the base
and I’m hoping it will help the fluid
diffuse and the glow will like flow in
between the rocks and make it look even
cooler let’s give it a shot let’s start
cutting open a whole bunch of glow
sticks load our rocks into our fountain
pour our glow fluid into the fountain
and hopefully get a bright cascading
glowing effect as we run the fluid
through this fountain this should look
really sweet
[Music]
alright that looks like it still goes on
still in place our pump is still down
inside the fountain but we have
displaced a lot of the volume so we
shouldn’t need quite as much blow fluid
however I still believe it’s going to
take three or four cups of liquid to
make this fountain be able to run now we
get to cut these all open drain the
fluid and hopefully have enough to get
our fountain working now we’ve seen the
reaction when we crack one of these glow
sticks but what exactly is going on
inside there are four main chemicals
that help create this reaction over
ninety percent of what’s inside the
glowsticks is a chemical called diethyl
phthalate the dimethyl palyed is mostly
a stabilizer that’s used to help keep
the other chemicals from going bad while
sitting around in the glowstick the two
primary chemicals that are reacting with
each other to create the glowing effect
are hydrogen peroxide and tert-butyl
alcohol the glowsticks will also contain
a fluorescent dye and there are a
variety of chemicals that can be used
depending on what color is desired we
have now harvested the fluid out of
about 50 glow sticks that’s what these
four cupfuls of liquid are and now we
have to get the fluid out of these glass
pieces as well we’ll put those in a
separate container so that they won’t
combine until they are running in the
fountain these are glass which I have to
break to get the fluid out so I’m trying
to cover them crack them over the
trashcan so we don’t have little bits of
glass that go everywhere that one
exploded most of them pop open that one
[Music]
at this point we’ve got four clear
plastic cup full of one fluid and about
one and a half of these squeeze bottles
of the inside fluid this should be the
stuff that adds the dye and this is the
activator where you can see the color
showing up in the dye if we hit it with
a black light which it doesn’t really do
much to the activator at this point it’s
time to take our activator fluid and put
it in the base of the fountain and see
if it looks like we’re going to have
[Music]
think we are just there once we add the
colored dye into the top bowls I think
now let’s add some pebbles down around
the base this fountain actually doesn’t
drain out of this bottom bolt the bottom
bowl is plugged up by what’s actually an
LED and we’ll be adding a little bit of
additional light not that we should
probably need it but it should spill up
and over the edge and sort of around
these pebbles which is why I’m hoping
they’ll make it look extra good there is
a chance that because of the different
ratio I’ve got going with tons of
activator and only a little bit of dye
it’s not gonna be super bright at first
but as soon as it starts moving I’ll
probably add a little bit more of the
dye fluid into the fountain so it all
gets going in circulation hopefully it
worked pretty well this is an experiment
I haven’t done this before
here we go three two one yeah all that
looks super good amazing Oh fantastic
it’s such good color in there this is
looking really sweet just to see what
happens let’s take some magenta colored
dye and pour that into the top change it
a little bit we have a little bit of a
purple fluid flowing down now it’s not
extreme but it was only one magenta
compared to like fifty blue that’s
pretty neat there is one more thing that
I do want to try we’ve seen what happens
if we mix a little bit of dish soap in
with our Glo fluid and the result is
that it starts glowing a lot more
brightly just not for very long so I’m
going to try adding some into here and
see what happens it might not mix very
well until it gets down and pulled into
the pump a little bit but hopefully we
can get a fountain that starts flowing a
lot brighter
it’s definitely brighter down here than
it was up there oh I think it’s now
getting pulled through looks to me like
we’re getting more brightness out of
this thing I don’t have a good sense of
how much to add really this is a lot
more fluid than just from one glow stick
but if you add too much it will kill it
a little bit of a gamble here but I
definitely think we saw an increase in
the brightness a little whirlpool we’re
a small spot bubbles is just circling in
one spot it’s kind of funny that doesn’t
look like a health potion from a video
game I don’t know what does maybe that
just means this is like a fountain of
youth you add more soap see if we can
actually just kill it with all the soap
seems to be able to handle a fair bit of
soap it’s not dying maybe it is that
does look a little dimmer I think it’s
gone down
lose really smoothly I think part of the
point of these fountains with water is
that you get the nice trickling noises
but because this fluid is more oily and
viscous it doesn’t really make trickling
sounds you can hear the pump running
near the pump running a lot right now
which means I might have made the pump
angry by filling it with thick things
like oily glow fluid and soap and we now
have some bubbles starting to form at
the top here and our pump is barely
trickling so I’m gonna say I’ve made our
pump angry and unplug it now the glow
fountain works entertainingly well we
got some really cool bright colors that
looked like something straight out of
the movie Avatar I think I really like
to look and then of course adding soap
it did get a lot brighter and then I
kept adding soap and now as you can see
there’s like nothing left it’s just
drained out completely it’s very
entertaining to watch the dynamic
between the soap and the glow fluid we
want to hear your ideas for what else we
should do with this glow fluid because
it looks really cool hey guys thanks for
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in the workshop we’ve got another fun
experiment using glow sticks today and
involves combining the glow stick fluid
with this decorative fountain it might
not be too hard to guess but we’re gonna
see if we can extract enough glow fluid
to put it into this fountain and
actually have its cycle with glowing
blue liquid so we have a whole ton of
these glow sticks we’re gonna crack them
open separate the two fluids within and
then we’ll put those into the fountain
I’m gonna try and separate it so one of
them is in the base and the other one is
in the little dishes up above so that as
the fountain starts running it starts
activating the glow hopefully we can get
that to work I think it would look
really cool if it does we’ve got a bunch
of rocks right here and these are
actually what I’m going to put down in
the base of this fountain this base is
actually what holds normally water in
our case glow fluid but it’s pretty big
and empty and that would use up a lot of
glow sticks and we already have a ton
but I wanted to cut down on the number
that we would need so I’m gonna use
these rocks to sort of fill the empty
spaces of this base so there’s still
enough fluid to cycle but not so much
that we’re just wasting glow sticks I
also have these little rocks in a bag
those are going to be a decorative
element on top
look it’s scattered all around the base
and I’m hoping it will help the fluid
diffuse and the glow will like flow in
between the rocks and make it look even
cooler let’s give it a shot let’s start
cutting open a whole bunch of glow
sticks load our rocks into our fountain
pour our glow fluid into the fountain
and hopefully get a bright cascading
glowing effect as we run the fluid
through this fountain this should look
really sweet
[Music]
alright that looks like it still goes on
still in place our pump is still down
inside the fountain but we have
displaced a lot of the volume so we
shouldn’t need quite as much blow fluid
however I still believe it’s going to
take three or four cups of liquid to
make this fountain be able to run now we
get to cut these all open drain the
fluid and hopefully have enough to get
our fountain working now we’ve seen the
reaction when we crack one of these glow
sticks but what exactly is going on
inside there are four main chemicals
that help create this reaction over
ninety percent of what’s inside the
glowsticks is a chemical called diethyl
phthalate the dimethyl palyed is mostly
a stabilizer that’s used to help keep
the other chemicals from going bad while
sitting around in the glowstick the two
primary chemicals that are reacting with
each other to create the glowing effect
are hydrogen peroxide and tert-butyl
alcohol the glowsticks will also contain
a fluorescent dye and there are a
variety of chemicals that can be used
depending on what color is desired we
have now harvested the fluid out of
about 50 glow sticks that’s what these
four cupfuls of liquid are and now we
have to get the fluid out of these glass
pieces as well we’ll put those in a
separate container so that they won’t
combine until they are running in the
fountain these are glass which I have to
break to get the fluid out so I’m trying
to cover them crack them over the
trashcan so we don’t have little bits of
glass that go everywhere that one
exploded most of them pop open that one
[Music]
at this point we’ve got four clear
plastic cup full of one fluid and about
one and a half of these squeeze bottles
of the inside fluid this should be the
stuff that adds the dye and this is the
activator where you can see the color
showing up in the dye if we hit it with
a black light which it doesn’t really do
much to the activator at this point it’s
time to take our activator fluid and put
it in the base of the fountain and see
if it looks like we’re going to have
[Music]
think we are just there once we add the
colored dye into the top bowls I think
now let’s add some pebbles down around
the base this fountain actually doesn’t
drain out of this bottom bolt the bottom
bowl is plugged up by what’s actually an
LED and we’ll be adding a little bit of
additional light not that we should
probably need it but it should spill up
and over the edge and sort of around
these pebbles which is why I’m hoping
they’ll make it look extra good there is
a chance that because of the different
ratio I’ve got going with tons of
activator and only a little bit of dye
it’s not gonna be super bright at first
but as soon as it starts moving I’ll
probably add a little bit more of the
dye fluid into the fountain so it all
gets going in circulation hopefully it
worked pretty well this is an experiment
I haven’t done this before
here we go three two one yeah all that
looks super good amazing Oh fantastic
it’s such good color in there this is
looking really sweet just to see what
happens let’s take some magenta colored
dye and pour that into the top change it
a little bit we have a little bit of a
purple fluid flowing down now it’s not
extreme but it was only one magenta
compared to like fifty blue that’s
pretty neat there is one more thing that
I do want to try we’ve seen what happens
if we mix a little bit of dish soap in
with our Glo fluid and the result is
that it starts glowing a lot more
brightly just not for very long so I’m
going to try adding some into here and
see what happens it might not mix very
well until it gets down and pulled into
the pump a little bit but hopefully we
can get a fountain that starts flowing a
lot brighter
it’s definitely brighter down here than
it was up there oh I think it’s now
getting pulled through looks to me like
we’re getting more brightness out of
this thing I don’t have a good sense of
how much to add really this is a lot
more fluid than just from one glow stick
but if you add too much it will kill it
a little bit of a gamble here but I
definitely think we saw an increase in
the brightness a little whirlpool we’re
a small spot bubbles is just circling in
one spot it’s kind of funny that doesn’t
look like a health potion from a video
game I don’t know what does maybe that
just means this is like a fountain of
youth you add more soap see if we can
actually just kill it with all the soap
seems to be able to handle a fair bit of
soap it’s not dying maybe it is that
does look a little dimmer I think it’s
gone down
lose really smoothly I think part of the
point of these fountains with water is
that you get the nice trickling noises
but because this fluid is more oily and
viscous it doesn’t really make trickling
sounds you can hear the pump running
near the pump running a lot right now
which means I might have made the pump
angry by filling it with thick things
like oily glow fluid and soap and we now
have some bubbles starting to form at
the top here and our pump is barely
trickling so I’m gonna say I’ve made our
pump angry and unplug it now the glow
fountain works entertainingly well we
got some really cool bright colors that
looked like something straight out of
the movie Avatar I think I really like
to look and then of course adding soap
it did get a lot brighter and then I
kept adding soap and now as you can see
there’s like nothing left it’s just
drained out completely it’s very
entertaining to watch the dynamic
between the soap and the glow fluid we
want to hear your ideas for what else we
should do with this glow fluid because
it looks really cool hey guys thanks for
watching if you aren’t a subscriber yet
just hit the bomb to get in the club if
you missed our last video or want to
check it out again click up here at the
top click down there if you want to see
what the internet thinks that you should
be watching next that’s it for now have fun be safe and see you tomorrow
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