How do glow sticks and light sticks work?
Glow sticks, also know as light sticks, work using a safe chemical reaction. There are four components to glowsticks. The first is the thick plastic outer tube, the second is the fluid you can see moving around inside the glostick, the third is the glass ampule which floats freely in the fluid and the fourth is the fluid contained inside the glass ampule. When you bend the glow stick, the glass ampule contained in the glowstick snaps open, and the two fluids flow together. The chemicals immediately react with one another, and the atoms begin emitting light. The particular dye used in the chemical solution gives the light a distinctive color. Glosticks come in a variety of colours including white. Depending on which fluids are used, the chemical reaction may go on for a few minutes or for many hours. If you warm up the glowstick, the extra energy will accelerate the reaction, and the glow stick will glow brighter, but for a shorter amount of time. If you cool the light stick, the reacti
