Glow In The Dark & BlackLight News

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A type of Glow In The Dark Product we have been wanting to make available to our customers are Black Light Powders. These beautiful powders come in nine fluorescing colors, that have a neon appearance under blacklight conditions, and will be extremely popular. These powders unlike glow in the dark pigments will glow consistently at the same level of brightness. This blacklight pigment is waterproof and is suitable for use in just about any medium including paint ink epoxy resins etc. The will soon do some research on  their use in Christmas decorations and will display the results on the glow in the dark website.

Some suitable applications are 

• Arts crafts and hobbies
• DIY - Do It Yourself
• Home improvements
• Business uses
• murals on feature walls
• Fluorescent ink
• Fluorescent Paint
• and lots more we will discuss in future entries in this blog

Ok, back to R & D

Glow In The Dark - Paul…

Hello
A lot of our customers seem to be unaware of the differences betwwen glow in the dark products, and UV Black Light Products. So the following is a summery of the two individual product series.
Glow In The Dark Products (usually contain glow in the dark powder - Pigments), absorb and store light energy, in well lit places, for example outdoors, and inside near fluorescent lighting. Other Sources of lighting, are the sun, light bulbs, UV Blacklight torches, and neon lights.
When The Glow in the Dark product is removed from the light source, for examples room lighting is switched off, the glow in the dark pigments within the glow product, will discharge light energy over many hours; gradually becoming dimmer as time progresses.
As a gereral rule, the larger the glow pigment, the longer and brighter the glow. So some glow products will glow all night long.
UV Fluorescent Black Light Products, (can be true UV fluorescent products using Fluorescent Pigments - Powders) Glow - Fluoresce when exposed to a UV or Black Light source and do not store light energy.
If the UV Fluorescent or BlackLight is switched off or removed from being near the UV Fluorescent Product, the UV Fluorescent Product will cease to Glow - Fluoresce. In other words UV fluorescent products do not store the light energy, but instead release it imediately. To see an example of UV Fluorescent Lighting, go to a night club.

To learn more about the definition of Glow in the Dark click this link.

To learn more about the definition of UV Fluorescent Black Light click this link.

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