Glowing paint is widely used in the manufacture of theatrical decorations, various "magic" items for night shows and role-playing games. You can make such a paint with your own hands if you have some skills in working with chemicals.
Necessary
- - porcelain chemical dishes;
- - scales;
- - beaker;
- - gas burner or electric stove;
- - colorless oil varnish, nitro varnish or nitroclay;
- - chemicals for each paint;
- - latex gloves;
- - protective mask;
- - protective glasses.
Instructions
Step 1
To make a bluish white paint, take:
- strontium sulfate - 20 g;
- 0.5% alcoholic solution of silver nitrate - 2 ml;
- 0.5% lead nitrate solution -4 ml;
Place all ingredients in a porcelain bowl and rub with a porcelain pestle. Heat the mixture on a gas burner or electric stove for 2-3 hours, stirring thoroughly.
Step 2
Mix the resulting powder with some kind of transparent varnish or nitro glue to the consistency of paint or paste. The drawing is applied with a brush or by rubbing the paste into the prepared in-depth contour. Let the image dry. You have an afterglow paint. If the drawing is first held in bright light, and then placed in the dark, it will glow.
Step 3
You can prepare glowing paints and other colors. For yellow-green, take the following substances:
- sulfate barium - 60 g;
- 0.5% alcohol solution of uranium nitrate - 6 ml;
- 0.5% solution of bismuth nitrate - 12 ml.
This recipe is mainly suitable for acquaintance, since the paint turns out to be weakly radioactive.
Step 4
Bright yellow paint, unlike yellow-green paint, is safe. To prepare it you need:
- strontium carbonate - 100 g;
- sulfur powder - 30 g;
- soda ash - 2 g;
- sodium chloride - 0.5 g;
- manganese sulfate - 0.2 g.
Step 5
Purple paint is prepared from the following substances:
- 0.5% solution of bismuth nitrate - 1 ml;
- sulfur powder - 6 g;
- sodium chloride - 0.15 g;
- slaked lime - 20 g:
- potassium chloride - 0.15 g.
Step 6
For the preparation of glowing paint, you can also use the fragments of glowing plastic figurines, which at one time the Russian industry produced quite a lot. They need to be crushed and dissolved in acetone or dichloroethane.
