Everything is Illuminated
September 2nd, 2009 by excimerThe big oil bath I inherited had some spilled pyrene (among other crap) in it, so the orange oil glows blue under a blacklight. So when I’m making some pretty chromophores that fluoresce yellow-orange in the glowy blue bath… I, naturally, take pictures.
The effect is something akin to the surface of a scorching-hot planet, during the day:
…and at night:
At least, that’s what I see.
That is freakin awesome.
i miss working with glowy things…
That looks awesome! Also: I’m going to poke in your lab in the next few weeks in hope to find a research advisor… so expect some visitors!
mmkay! If you’re interested in our group, email me =)
I think I saw you leaving the CLSL today. I didn’t want to look like a total stalker, but HI!
Oh that’s not creepy at all… *note to self: get restraining order*
I miss working with glowing stuff as well…
Now it’s only Gold…
But I still remeber some kind of color flash i made myself:
Gold is good – Purple of Cassius alone and for fancy glassmaking.
Uranium (VI) is better – yellow-green fluorescent (and mildly radioactive) glass.
The Atomic Hen!
so have you mastered the evil laugh already?
Fools! I’ll destroy you all!
glowy.
I assume the pyrene fluorescence doesn’t do anything bad to your products?
Nope, though I’d be worried more about all the UV I blasted it with using our big-ass UV lamp…
You should frame that jazz. Chemistry or art? You’re blurring the line!
One should dance around this experiment to Numa Numa (playing on full blast)
I wonder if pyrene’s emission is the other’s excitation, so that you get more energy pumped into the transition of your higher-wavelength stuff.
Nice title, too. Foer is sehr gut.
Curious, I broke a bowlish like glassware by pyrex like that. I’ve had a hard time finding a replacement, since that thing was really useful. Any idea what it’s official name is?
Crystallizing dish
!!!
I am going to “spill” something in my oil bath, too.
It is a great movie.
P. S. I hate oil baths.
Spilled some BODIPY in mine. All better.