Glow Sticks Temperature Research

How Temperature Affects A Glow Stick Glow sticks come in many shapes, sizes, and vibrant colors and are a quite popular object to take to places such as parties. There is one problem with all glow sticks that everyone has to face and that is having it last for an extensive amount of time. The scientific question being asked in this experiment is, how does temperature affect how long a glow stick stays lit? To solve this problem an experiment to see which temperature of the water a glow stick will stay lit longer in will demonstrate this idea. Different types of research that has been found was that by putting the glow stick in different temperatures, it may show a conclusion on which brings out a long time of being lit.
“Glow sticks are nonelectrical plastic tubes or rings with chemicals that cause them to glow for a while. Each has a small glass container which is covered by the plastic tube. The stick is activated when it is bent or cracked this process is called chemiluminescence. When the tube is cracked hydrogen peroxide solution, phenyl oxalate ester and the …show more content…
“Glow sticks started when scientist tried to replicate the natural bioluminescent light that the fireflies made. In the 1960’s, Edwin Chandross of Bell Labs patented the first glow stick out of oxalyl chloride and hydrogen peroxide” (DP). Another experiment that has been done is almost similar to this experiment. The scientific question in this similar experiment is what is the effect of temperature of the intensity of the glow (brightness) of a glow stick?” (Lora). In that experiment, it is a bit different because it is finding which glow stick will glow brighter when placed in different temperatures. The last experiment done with glow sticks has the question of “why are glow sticks different colors?” (Helmenstine). Later in the experiment, it was figured out that different chemical reactions make different