{"id":10990,"date":"2012-02-10T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2012-02-10T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T08:00:42","slug":"how-black-light-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10990","title":{"rendered":"How Black Light Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5882867\/how-black-light-works\">How Black Light Works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know that the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1862\">B-vitamins fluoresced<\/a>, but not bananas.  Now I need to check this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}