![]() ![]() It doesn't truly fluoresce, but what you will see with trans-blue, trans-clear and a few similar colors is that they will refract the visible wavelengths of the blacklight the way they would any other light source, making them appear to have an extremely faint glow from certain angles and light levels.īlacklights emit a dim purplish glow which does provide a small amount of visible illumination. I do have a question though, does Brickarms Trans Blue glow under blacklight? Originally posted at 1:11PM, 20 August 2011 PDT These are typically rare and hard to find, and the quality of the glow varies widely. Will has also injected test runs of many different glow-in-the-dark materials of one color and intensity or another. Glow In The Dark Green: phosphorescent non-production color-pale GITD green under visible light glows moderately bright green under UV, glow continues after exposure to UV and fades over a period of time Neon Metallic Green (Jade): non-production color-vivid metallic/pearlized green under visible light glows moderately bright green under UV and shows surface detail well Neon Bronze: non-production color-iridescent semi-translucent bronze under visible light glows a weak green under UV and shows surface detail well Trans-Apple Green: non-production color-comparable to TLC Trans-Bright Green under visible light glows similarly to BA Trans-Green under UV but not as brightly Trans-Orange: production color-similar to TLC Trans-Orange in visible light glows a moderately bright green with orange tints under UV and shows surface detail well-the thinner the ABS, the more bright and green Trans-Green: production color-glows a very bright greenish-yellow comparable to (but slightly paler than) TLC Trans-Neon Green and tends to wash out even more in photographs under UV Glow In Dark Trans: moderately phosphorescent glows a sickly translucent green Glow In Dark Opaque: weakly phosphorescent glows a sickly green Trans-Bright Green: glows a moderately bright apple-green Trans-Neon Green: glows a very bright yellowish-green is so bright that it tends to wash out when photographed Trans-Neon Yellow: glows a sickly greenish-yellow Trans-Neon Orange: glows a very bright orange color - different from Trans-Orange, which does NOT glow To simplify things I'm going to refer to fluorescent colors as "neon" and phosphorescent colors as "GITD" (for "glow in the dark"). There are many different TLC (The Lego Company) and Brickarms colors which are fluorescent, and a small handful which are phosphorescent. ![]() It is found all over nature, but the example that comes to mind for most people is that of "glow in the dark" objects, which "charge" like a battery by absorbing UV light (whether from the sun or a blacklight) and then continue to glow at a lower intensity for varying amounts of time after the UV stimulation stops. ![]() Phosphorescence is related to fluorescence, but works on a slower time scale. When you stop shining UV light on it, it stops glowing immediately. Put simply, when you shine a blacklight (a light designed to emit UV) on a fluorescent object, it glows. The most well-known example of this is in "neon" colors, which respond to invisible ultraviolet light by emitting visible light. I won't bore you with math and I'm going to oversimplify the science a bit in order to explain how this works, but this should at least convey the essentials as they relate to Lego.įluorescence is when an object absorbs light of one kind and immediately emits a different kind. ![]()
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