What is a glow stick?

What is a glow stick? Let's have a look!

A glow stick is a rod-shaped object, which can emit fluorescence when it is gently bent. Very beautiful, widely used in entertainment, night fishing, wedding and other fields.

Generally, the outer layer of fluorescent stick is polyethylene (plastic) with a glass tube interlayer. The liquids inside and outside the interlayer are peroxide and ester compounds respectively. After bending, beating and rubbing, the glass is broken, and the two compounds react to make the fluorescent dye glow, which usually lasts for 30 seconds to 48 hours.

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Application of fluorescent stick

Glow stick is a kind of light-emitting product with a wide range of applications, including:

1, entertainment

Concerts and KTV users waved in their hands to enhance the atmosphere.

Step 2 get together

At the party, using light sticks can increase the atmosphere.

3, should help

It is also common for fans to wave light sticks at concerts to help idols.

4. Fishing at night

Fluorescent sticks can be made into multiple floats for night fishing or night fishing at sea.

5. Outdoor

Large fluorescent sticks can be used in camping, mountaineering, exploration and other fields, with functions of lighting, warning, mutual contact, rescue and so on.

6. disaster

When disasters such as earthquakes occur, light sticks can be used as emergency lighting, or they can be easily found by rescuers.

7. Military

The glow sticks used in the military field are not ordinary glow sticks, but professional infrared glow sticks, which can only be seen through night vision goggles.

What kind of rubbish do glow sticks belong to?

Glow sticks can often be seen in concerts, banquets, holiday parties and other places. Many friends throw away the glow sticks that no longer glow after use, which is actually not good. Glow sticks should be thrown into the harmful trash can.

Regular glow sticks are non-toxic and harmless when used correctly. Among them, dicarboxylic acid, dibutyl ester, phthalate ester and fluorescent agent have low toxicity and belong to hazardous waste. When handling, it should be separated from resource garbage and put into garbage bags separately, and the word "harmful" should be marked on the garbage bags.