• Question: Can you get black light? Is it possible to create black light using chemo luminescence?

    Asked by desorgherm to Christina, Colin, Jess, Samaneh, Steve on 21 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Steven Gardner

      Steven Gardner answered on 21 Jun 2013:


      Black is by definition a lack of light, so not really.

      There are things called black lights that forensic teams use, I think they emit ultraviolet light though and work by causing certain things to glow that you wouldn’t normally see.

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