BAD PARENTING! Stop the ignorance! What do children want to do with glow in the dark bubbles? Chase them and try to catch them until they pop. This is why doing this around kids is dangerous. The cracking you hear in glow sticks is separate glass vials that hold compounds, which are inert when alone, but glow when combined. Many larger broken glass pieces will settle to the bottom of this idiotic bubble mix. But, of course, the idiot making this will continue to mix before they blow bubbles, causing the tiny pieces of lighter-density glass to come up and be suspended in the thicker viscosity bubble solution. So now what you have is minute pieces if glass in your bubbles. Ive seen toddlers clap bubbles and laugh...or worse yet, having one with glass particles pop in your kids eye. This will not be funny. They will cry and cry and you wont see whats bothering them. One of the solutions is hydrogen peroxide, which most if us know, but the higher concentration contained in glow sticks can oxidize (think rust) skin and the mucus membranes on your eyeballs, mouth, and lines inside the nose down through the lungs. Imagine the hilarious clip on youtube of your dog biting these bubbles but later, his mouth has corroded into open sores. Not so funny now. Phenyl oxalate ester is the compound that makes a glow stick to glow. If you get any of this on you skin, contact your local POISON CONTROL CENTER. It causes chemical burns to the mouth and throat, sting skin, and burn eyes. If contact is made, rinse with water immediately. I am dealing with a lot of plastics and resins now and work with one of the chemicals contained in glow sticks, Phthalic ester. It is what makes plastics bend. In tiny quantities, once mixed and cured/hardened, it is fine, but not in a concentrated liquid state! This has been removed from many toys for young children and pets because of their increased eating/chewing probability. It is toxic if consumed. THIS IDEA IS SO NOT AWESOME. SHARE this to STOP idiots from causing unnecessary hospital visits! It is behind a thick plastic casing for a reason. Leave it that way.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:39:16 +0000
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