This week Reactions is helping you make some fluorescent flowers with chemistry. Watch here for how to make these radiant beauties with science.

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Writer & Producer:
Kirk Zamieroski

Executive Producer:
Adam Dylewski

Scientific consultants:
Tom Kuech, Ph.D.
Miriam Kraus, Ph.D.
Darcy Gentleman, Ph.D.

Music:
Robert Daglio – Com Todo Meu Amor

Sources:
How Do Highlighters work – http://sustainable-nano.com/2013/02/25/how-do-black-lights-work-why-do-highlighters-look-so-bright-and-how-can-you-impress-your-girlfriend-with-science/
What’s in Highlighters: Pyranine –
http://www.compoundchem.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-Chemistry-of-Highlighter-Pen-Colours.png
The Electromagnetic Spectrum – https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/EM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg/2000px-EM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg.png
The Visible Light Spectrum – https://www.colormatters.com/color-and-science/electromagnetic-color
On Tonic water – http://www.livescience.com/36536-tonic-water-quinine-malaria-health.html
On Color –
http://www.livescience.com/32559-why-do-we-see-in-color.html
On Blacklights –
http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=66
Why flowers take up color from water – http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/colorful-carnations/
Nanodiamonds – http://sustainable-nano.com/2013/04/24/fluorescent-nanodiamonds-the-movie/#more-870
Fluorescence and Forensics – http://forensics.org.my/img/Article04.pdf
Quantum Dots and Cancer – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18393668
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/nn402581q
Real-Time Background-Free Selective Imaging of Fluorescent Nanodiamonds in Vivo http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/nl302979d

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