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Journey Digital Media - Absolutely Amazing New Phone: Flip Phones are Back! Hack Apart a Highlighter to Create UV-Reactive Flowers [Science] - How-To Geek ETC. College students have long been hacking apart highlighters to create glowing bottles of booze to line their dorm room walls.

Hack Apart a Highlighter to Create UV-Reactive Flowers [Science] - How-To Geek ETC

Far more interesting, however, is the application of the hack to flowers. Many of you may remember a science class experiment from years gone by where in you put food coloring in a beaker and then some freshly cut white flowers; returning to the experiment a day later yielded flowers colored to match the dye you added. This little experiment relies on the same technique, only instead of blue food coloring the flowers suck up UV-reactive highlighter dye. Learn the Science Behind Glow Sticks by Making Your Own.