How Black Light Works

How Black Light Works.

Bananas are extremely cool in black light, especially around their spots, which have deposits of phosphors. Banana spots glow in leopard-like patterns under black light. Chlorophyll glows red, and vaseline glows blue. Tonic water glows in black light. Vitamin A and the B vitamins thiamine, niacin, and riboflavin will all glow under black light, especially if they’re soaked in vinegar. Simply grind up vitamin tablets, soak them in a little vinegar, and either leave them around or serve them as salad dressing.

I know that the B-vitamins fluoresced, but not bananas. Now I need to check this out.

One thought on “How Black Light Works

  1. Paper is treated with phosphorous, as are white clothes and laundry detergents. These added phosphorous compounds help clothes and paper have a bright, marketable white glow.

    1) “Phosphorus” not “phosphorous.”
    2) Confabulation of “phosphorus” with “phosphor.”
    3) Bananas are obviously space alien sustenance of a species evolved around a white dwarf star who have taken to wearing two-gallon hats, the Peccadilloes.

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