I want to know if you can make a crystal have a fairly bright glow, nothing like a light bulb but still a considerable glow.
Is it possible to make a crystal glow without it being an optical illusion thats just using lights or lasers. I am considering doing research into making a lightsource that produces a low but still valid amount of light that might be actually useful. If it involves mixing chemicals into the crystals formation, then that can be arranged, I just need to know if it is possible.
Is it possible to make a crystal glow without it being an optical illusion thats just using lights or lasers. I am considering doing research into making a lightsource that produces a low but still valid amount of light that might be actually useful. If it involves mixing chemicals into the crystals formation, then that can be arranged, I just need to know if it is possible.
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Producing light requires energy. The question is: Where is your necessary energy going to come from?
There are chemical reactions that produce light in solutions. (I don't know of any in solids.) But they don't last long, then what do you do when the chemicals are used up?
There's nuclear energy -- certain radioactive elements give off light. (Radium salts for historic example.) But do you really want your crystal to be emitting radioactivity? And even though it takes longer than chemical reactions, nuclear reactions run out of fuel too.
There are chemical reactions that produce light in solutions. (I don't know of any in solids.) But they don't last long, then what do you do when the chemicals are used up?
There's nuclear energy -- certain radioactive elements give off light. (Radium salts for historic example.) But do you really want your crystal to be emitting radioactivity? And even though it takes longer than chemical reactions, nuclear reactions run out of fuel too.
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Wow.
I wonder if you considered not mixing chemicals into the crystal's formation. That would be quite the trick.
Perhaps, just a thought, you should try to learn a bit about what it is you are talking about before creating all sorts of wonderful things. But if you can do it while profoundly ignorant, go right ahead.
There is the abstract concept called energy. Light is a form of energy. We know that to produce light you must convert some other type of energy into it. Energy is a conserved quantity.
My condescending tone is proportional to your naivete.
There are crystals that give off light when squeezed - try chewing a peppermint breath mint in front of a mirror in a very dark room with your mouth open,
There are crystals which can give off light when exposed to sound
or a magnetic field gradient
or electricity
or a chemical.
To be useful, the crystals would have to give off light for a long time and be efficient at using the energy.
anyway to answer your question: yes I can make a crystal glow without using external light
but I have no reason to think that anything useful can result from such a apparatus. Try it. The greatest ideas came from some partially formed act of creation.
I wonder if you considered not mixing chemicals into the crystal's formation. That would be quite the trick.
Perhaps, just a thought, you should try to learn a bit about what it is you are talking about before creating all sorts of wonderful things. But if you can do it while profoundly ignorant, go right ahead.
There is the abstract concept called energy. Light is a form of energy. We know that to produce light you must convert some other type of energy into it. Energy is a conserved quantity.
My condescending tone is proportional to your naivete.
There are crystals that give off light when squeezed - try chewing a peppermint breath mint in front of a mirror in a very dark room with your mouth open,
There are crystals which can give off light when exposed to sound
or a magnetic field gradient
or electricity
or a chemical.
To be useful, the crystals would have to give off light for a long time and be efficient at using the energy.
anyway to answer your question: yes I can make a crystal glow without using external light
but I have no reason to think that anything useful can result from such a apparatus. Try it. The greatest ideas came from some partially formed act of creation.
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sure of course