How to Make a Tomato Glow In the Dark
Make A GLOWING TOMATO ! - Celebrity bloopers here
By Amelia Tucker
You can make a tomato glow in dark, with a little science know how.
I will, however, add a fair warning. It is extremely cool and easy to do BUT requires using syringes and match heads (for the phosphorous).
It is well worth a visit and if you are homeschool family or science teacher, it would be a stunning experiment for your group.
If you have an extra tomato laying around and some readily available ingredients, you are going to love it!
This is even cool enough to just show the video to your class and they will be wowed!
We used it for Science today and the boys were mesmerized. The nicest thing is that if you simply watch the video as we did, you can rewind and see it again and again.
Hope you like it!
October 5th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I’m gonna do some great stuff with this for Halloween!!
October 21st, 2007 at 10:40 pm
didnt work..i cut the tips off the matches..wooden stick matches…and i let them soak in bleach for 20 minutes….then took the top liquid and mixed it with peroxide..but nothing happened…so then i slit a tomato and mixed its inside with the mixture..to check for any reaction..all i got was a sizzle from the bleach and peroxide mixing though..no glowing
October 28th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Adam-
Oh no!! I don’t know what could have happened. Is your bleach by chance, an older bottle? I know that bleach deteriorates with age and although still smells normal, is less effective.
I use it constantly for my dairy stuff and we are told all the time how to replace our bleach often for full effectiveness.
Hope this helps your experimenting!
Amelia
October 29th, 2007 at 1:20 am
i hate to say this but, i also tried it but it didnt work, can anybody give me any formula on how to make a glow in the dark liquid easily using ingredients that can be found at home?
October 29th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Ack! Geez guys, the video made it look so easy too! If *anyone* made this work please share with us how you did it.
So I guess you can all throw your non-glowing,yet filled with toxic waste, tomatoes at me now.
Amelia
October 31st, 2007 at 7:31 am
I got this reaction to work by injecting weak phosphoric acid (from a hardware store after cleaning cement off some tiles), baking soda solution, and peroxide.
November 4th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
I tried the phosphoric acid one too, I got nothing. How much of each did you use?
November 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
OOOh…that ppor tomato!
Tomatoes are meant to be eaten, savoured, enjoyed, ingested with delight…not lighted.
November 28th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
i hope it works im doing my project on this, and i could really use a A!
December 21st, 2007 at 4:07 am
AAH!!!! Beautiful! Science’s been upgrading so fast now nothing can stop it! |o|. Nice
January 4th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Did anyone try this with the tip from LGM? I am curious as all get out about it.
Wonder why it works for some and not for everyone?
Amelia
February 28th, 2008 at 6:33 am
I don’t know if I would even atempt this.My 200 and something heirloom tomatoes taste to good to do something like this to.Besides it’s much more fun to have a tomato fight.At least it is for the kids around here.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
how the heck do i make it work