Mixing Glow powder colors together.

IsaacHayes

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I mixed a lot of blue into a small amount of green I had to make "aqua". It didn't mix too well as I just put the powder in a vial, and shook. Plus the powders are of 2 different grain sizes.

The result when charged was a greenish cyan colored glow. Then it faded into an amost erie, whitish cyan glow. And later it was a bluer cyan. It changes colors because of the intense green glows bright at first, then when it calms down the sheer amount of blue balances it out. You can still see the individual color grains if you look at it.

I kind of like it. I'd probably really like pure aqua (seems more radioactive of a color than green), but this is neat too because it changes colors over time.

I'm wondering if you could do something with Red as well? Like: 5 parts RED, 3 parts BLUE, 2 parts GREEN. Wonder if that would glow green, blue, then white?

Has anyone else experiemented with mixing colors to make different effects?
 
I was thinking the same thing. Some of the powders are a similar pale color, like violet. I have some colored glow rock samples and most revert back to the same color of green after many hours. You might want to alternate stripes or paint some colored patterns.
 
If you are using the Glow Inc. glow powders, you can use the brightness charts on our website to determine ratios and expected results during the drain cycle. To find the charts, go to the glow powders page, click on "More info" next to any product. You will see that products chart 1/2 way down the page. Remember to use the "projected light" color scale (Red, Green, Blue as primary colors) and not the reflected light color scale (Red, Blue, Yellow) that they taught you in art school.

A lot of our customers have used this to good effect to make changing comets, planets, fireballs, etc that literally change. One customer used it to make a changing volcanoe lava for a museum exhibit (complete with nasty sulfur smell).

Glow Inc.'s glow powders can be found at:
http://glowinc.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=3
 
haha nasty sulfur smell.
I'm not using glowinc brand, but I've seen your brightness ratings which are very helpfull for comparing products.

Good to know others have messed with mixing to make color changing stuff.
 
I have made white powder. It looks orange, but when charged it glows white for a bit, then kinda aquaish, then greenish.

They now have white and yellow powder, dont even bother, its not bright at all and dosent last long.

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White glow is under EVERYDAY USE, I also posted the glow dots, great for celings.

Also, if you send your useage/idea and a pic to readysetglo they will send you 1oz of glow stuff of your choise FREE (thats how I got the white and yellow).

Hey, free glow powder, cant beat that. And the green and aqua here is the good stuff too, larger grain (NOT cornstarch) and glows 8-12 hrs

Jeff
 
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