Make a Glowing Tomato.

By Chrisjob

It's official: Things that glow are better than things that don't. Make some.

Materials

A box of non-safety matches
Bleach
A tomato
Hydrogen peroxide

Tools

Knife
Small container
Syringe

[Via Neatorama]

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August 15, 2007

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domestika

August 24, 2007

This looks intensely cool, granted. But I'm the girl who accidentally blew up the high school chem lab... Between the scraping of high-phosphorous matches with a knife and the wielding of pointy syringes full of hydrogen peroxide, uhm... maybe this isn't a project for anyone without full home-and-life insurance coverage?

TangoMango

August 15, 2007

Has this been validated? Not trying to be a skeptic, but as I was trying to find out why this is the case, I stumbled upon some warning: "Hazardous reactions ranging from ignition to explosion have been reported with alcohols, [...] amines and phosphorus." (cited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide). You are not encouraging us to make tomato bombs are you? :P