We love a makeup product that has skin-loving benefits, so naturally, this highlighting stick from Black Opal which calls out antioxidants and aloe vera as part of its silky-smooth formula is a winner in our book. The stick is like a magic wand, adding the most gorgeous, creamy glow anywhere you swipe.
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Knowing the chemicals behind the colours is all well and good, but why do they produce these different colours? To explain that, we need to talk about the interaction between light and the various chemical structures. In general, chemicals are coloured because they absorb some wavelengths of light, but not others.
Highly conjugated molecules — that is, molecules with a large number of alternating double and single bonds — can absorb wavelengths of light in the visible range of the spectrum, causing them to appear different colours depending on the precise wavelengths of light absorbed. So, the dyes in our highlighter inks are coloured due to their large number of alternating double and single bonds.
After all, there are plenty of chemicals out there that contain a large number of alternating double and single bonds and are consequently coloured, but significantly fewer of them are fluorescent in the same manner as highlighter inks. This is, however, also possible to explain with chemical structure and absorbance. As well as absorbing visible light, the chemical structures of the dyes used in highlighter inks also absorb light in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum.
Because humans can't see the original ultraviolet light, a fluorescent object looks like it is glowing mysteriously on its own when it is illuminated only by ultraviolet rays in a dark room. For this reason, ultraviolet lights and fluorescent materials can add an intriguing look to darkened rooms at parties and events.
Since highlighters contain fluorescent chemicals, the marks made by highlighters will seem to eerily glow on their own when placed in a dark room with an ultraviolet light e. When a fluorescent object is illuminated by both visible light and ultraviolet light such as when illuminated by sunlight , the object will still convert the ultraviolet light to visible light.
The visible light created by the object's fluorescence gets added to the visible light reflected off the object. As a result, a human observes a fluorescent object that is under full illumination to be unusually bright instead of eerily glowing on its own. Note that this is a physical effect and not a psychological effect. A fluorescent object does not just seem to be brighter.
A fluorescent object is physically brighter in the visible spectrum when under full illumination than other non-fluorescent, non-glowing objects.
For example, take a normal yellow marker and a yellow highlighter marker which contains a yellow fluorescent chemical mixed into the ink.
Draw with both markers on normal white paper. When visible light and ultraviolet light shines on the paper, such as from the sun or from a normal light bulb, the fluorescent marker ink will always be brighter in the visible-light portion of the spectrum than the normal ink.
Furthermore, the fluorescent ink is brighter in the visible spectrum than can be accounted for by the original visible light present. For this reason, fluorescent objects under full illumination appear unnaturally bright. The effect of highlighter ink appearing unnaturally bright under normal illumination and the effect of highlighter ink glowing eerily when illuminated by an ultraviolet light in a dark room are the exact same effect: fluorescence.
Fluorescent chemicals are also sometimes added to paper, posterboard, paint, and clothing to make them appear unnaturally bright. Fluorescence in this context is often informally called "neon colors" even though fluorescence has nothing to do with the element neon.
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