The glowing Mountain Dew jape first hit the Internet in in the form of a video clip and has been making the rounds on Facebook since For camping or late nights at the beach? Put the lid on and shake — walla! Homemade glow stick bottle solution. My son told me about this video clip that claims that you can make Mountain Dew Glow with just a little bit of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. Is this a hoax? Although the internet procedure did not work, you can still get Mountain Dew to glow using a florescent dye such as Luminol.
When Luminol is oxidized by the hydrogen peroxide, the electrons in the dye become excited and emit a glow! Different florescent dyes emit different colors. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. You can use either a traditional highlighter or one of the liquid kinds. For instance, with water, you can use pink or orange highlighters as well as green and yellow ones. Other colors, like blue and purple, tend not to create a very strong glow, however. Pull out the ink-soaked sponge.
Pry open the bottom seal of the highlighter using your hands, a utility knife, or a pair of skinny pliers. Once you take off the bottom and can see the ink-soaked sponge inside, carefully pick the sponge up out of the highlighter pen using a pair of tweezers.
If you use your fingers to pick out the highlighter ink sponge, your hands will get fluorescent ink all over them.
That is why the use of tweezers or small needle-nose pliers is preferable. If you opt to use a liquid highlighter, you will still need to remove the bottom, but you should not do anything with the liquid ink yet.
Pour a little Mountain Dew out of the bottle. Take a sip of the Mountain Dew or pour out about 1" cm from the top before you insert the ink-soaked sponge or liquid ink from the highlighter.
You only need to empty out a little of the liquid to provide enough space for the highlighter sponge or ink. The additional highlighter component will displace some of the fluid and if you do not pour any out beforehand, you could face an overflow from the top of the bottle.
Place the ink in the soda. Use your pliers to carefully lower the ink-soaked sponge into the bottle of Mountain Dew, submerging it completely under the soda. If using a highlighter with a liquid compartment, simply pour the highlighter ink straight into the soda. Use a funnel only if necessary. At this point, the highlighter ink itself will glow, but in order to make the Mountain Dew glow, you need to disperse the ink throughout the soda.
Shaking it thoroughly should accomplish this. You can remove the label of the bottle in order to see the liquid more clearly. If using liquid ink, you will probably only need to shake the bottle for 30 seconds or so. If using an ink-soaked sponge, you may need to shake it for a minute or more.
Hold the Mountain Dew under a UV ultraviolet light, also known as a black light. You should be able to see a bright glow. This glow can also last for days to weeks, depending on how fluorescent the highlighter ink is. In order to see the glow, the bottle will need to remain underneath a UV light. It is not recommended that you hold onto this for long-term storage or display purposes, even if the glow appears to last past a week.
Since the bottle and liquid are not sterilized, and since you are providing a porous surface the ink-coated sponge , organic growth including bacteria and fungus can start to grow inside the bottle if left too long. If you do want to use this method for a long-term decoration, you would be better off using distilled water instead of Mountain Dew. The distillation process removes most bacteria. Soak clear water beads in the glowing Mountain Dew for added fun.
Soak them in the glowing Mountain Dew for 2 to 3 hours. The beads will absorb the glowing liquid and will glow themselves under a black light. It depends on what type of method you are using. If you are using the highlighter method, then you would have to use a highlighter.
Not Helpful 4 Helpful It can be any soda, but don't use dark pop because it will take out the glow, only use light colored pops, or as the article says, water. Not Helpful 5 Helpful Yes; any clear or bright-colored drink will work.
The soda has nothing to do with the reaction except for its color. Not Helpful 3 Helpful 5. If you use the first method, it will last two hours at best. With the highlighter method, it will certainly last into the next day, and longer!
Not Helpful 5 Helpful 8. Instead of using ultraviolet light, can I put Mountain Dew under sunlight to make it glow? Sunlight would not make it glow, you could try putting it in a dark room but that would only work after you first put the glowstick into the drink. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 0.
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