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Hello fellow Nerds.
Today we're making a glowstick with these chemicals.
So first off, we have ethyl acetate,
which will serve as the solvent for this reaction.
This is needed because most of these particular chemicals do not dissolve in water.
Next here we have the dye.
This is 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene.
Now if you look closely, it has an orange color in the solid state.
But this will dissolve to give a green color and a bluish green glow when we initiate the reaction.
This next chemical is sodium acetate,
which will serve as a base to activate the hydrogen peroxide.
Over here we have 30% hydrogen peroxide,
needed to oxidize the TCPO.
Now this is the good stuff.
This is "TCPO" or bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) oxalate.
This is the key ingredient for making this reaction work.
It's pretty expensive stuff so we had to make it ourselves here at NurdRage.
Ok, enough talk, let's do some chemistry.
Told ya it was green.
I think I used a little bit too much sodium acetate.
Ok here we go, get the lights.
Now you're probably wondering how we made our TCPO,
and we'll be reviewing that reaction in an upcoming video.
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