Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it?

[IsaacHayes]

I have some blue glowpowder, it's not really fine powder, but it has some particles that glow white. Interesting. Also, these white glowing particles, glow as bright as green powder does!

So what's going on here???
Is blue really white that has a pigment? But why are these so bright??

 

[greenlight]

I noticed the same thing. Must not be pure samples. How does this affect the aesthetics of your project?

 

[IsaacHayes]

Re: Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it

you only notice it when it's not used in things like flashlights. Like when you paint a flat object with it. And it doesn't occour a lot, so when you paint something you have a rare chance of having them show up.

For the most part you don't notice it.

 

[greenlight]

Re: Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it

Is it royal blue or aqua?

 

[IsaacHayes]

Re: Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it

It's not aqua. It's just plain "Blue" GP. Does aqua exhibit this too? My green I have is from a different source and finer, and I don't see this happening.

 

[Ctechlite]

Re: Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it

I don't really see any bright white pieces in either my aqua or blue, but I have not used either on a large piece. Just around emitters glued to Osinks. When I get a chance, i'll try applying some on a broad area.

The website faq for my powder says it is 200 mesh, I don't know what that means tho... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon3.gif

 

[IsaacHayes]

Re: Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it

Ctechlite: I can see this just in my bag of blue sitting on a table. You don't have to paint it to see it. My blue is coarser than the green you sold me.

 

[lasercrazy]

Re: Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it

The blue I bought ctech is just as fine if not finer than the green I got from him.

 

[markdi]

Re: Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it

I have green glow powder that says it is
from the united states radium corp

and it is radioactive - slightly

my scintilating detector picks it up at a distance

 

[Skylighter]

You guys are experiencing contamination. It happens when you use the equipment for one pigment on another pigment. We have received a lot of samples from the low end manufacturers with this problem.

It is not a manufacturing byproduct. You will definately not see it in our products.

 

[lasercrazy]

And it didn't have any white specks in it either.

 

[IsaacHayes]

Re: Blue glow powder has bright white peices in it

laser: my blue is from a different source than the green I got from Ctechlite.

Danny: I figured it'd be something like that. Do you know why the white specs would be so much brigther? Are they ultra-green but you just don't see the green because they are so small and mixed with blue?