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How to make a tomato glow in the dark (FAKE?)

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Views: 76,349 Length: 2:34 Date added: 08/16/07 Rating: B

F for FAKE. This video has been labeled a "Faux-To". Commonly contested as bogus science, we believe this video to be a hoax. What's your opinion? Comment below.

Make a tomato glow in the dark using three household chemicals and the step-by-step instructions in this how-to video. A Shooting Eggs Production, this video tutorial could also teach you how to make your own glow sticks! You need a syringe, hydrogen peroxide, matches and bleach!

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Shaving Cream MAN! 1 year ago
Spell check in progress. Please wait.
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ryan 2 weeks ago
good
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JamesXavierFiles 1 year ago
BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT!!!! Hey use the injector from an old inkjet refill kit!!!
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serpentandthesun 1 year ago
Nice. All that money spent on making Genetically Modified glowing animals? This could be the way forward at a fraction of the cost.

Glowing rats anyone?
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Sumofl 8 months ago
This would kill them, try making this and injecting enough to make you glow see what happens.
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Thirstygal 1 year ago
Cool. Can't wait for the growing season. A burning bush!
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Monneyman3 1 year ago
Cool!!.... but how much bleach... which of the two layers do you collect.... and do you need pure hydrogen peroxide or will the 3% or so in the brown bottled stuff work?
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ignae 8 months ago
dunno, looks fake
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AngryBabyMonkey 8 months ago
dubious.
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Horus 7 months ago
good trick! I wonder how long the glowing effect last?
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Horus 7 months ago
the glowing tomato from Springfield!
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radhika 7 months ago
has anyone tried it? wht was the outcome/?
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comeon 6 months ago
it should work
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rdwilson 6 months ago
how come it didnt work for me
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BobsBigBoy 6 months ago
Can you make your meat glow with this technique?
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tuangelpirata 6 months ago
bleach
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Missle 5 months ago
you need to collect the top layer of liquid to inject...the 3% stuff will work but the stronger the better for the peroxide....and the meat would work but you'd be better off using the chems as a rub rather than injecting cuz you need a space for the chemicals to meet
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juicebox67 5 months ago
were can you find those kind of matches?
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enloopious 5 months ago
Doesn't work. Tried it. Are they claiming that tomatoes have CYALUME or LUMINOL in them? Kind of a bummer considering Shooting Eggs Productions usually has good info.
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crazytacoman 4 months ago
JAMES AND THE GLOWING TOMATO! XD
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Pyroman7 4 months ago
where the HELL am i supposed to get a syringe? the hippie from the dark, scary alley?
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robert rosca 4 months ago
lol??? a farmacy...
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irmaandvanessa 2 months ago
pharmacy
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robert rosca 2 months ago
bah, I'm not English...
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ram333 4 months ago
aw you cannot eat them?... jk
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ram333 4 months ago
aw you can;t eat them
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gordojuegos 4 months ago
GOOD TRICK
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yankz 4 months ago
the whole apple tree is lighting up in the night now... YAY!!!!!
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sluggercat 3 months ago
bought 2 kinds of non safety matches neither glows in black light. hmmm
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korean 3 months ago
Not working. Please, make me know what kind of bleach.
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korean 3 months ago
Use orgarnic peroxide
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yurnero192 3 months ago
oh yea im only 13 yrs old but i tried it!

its so coool!

the tomato glowed and i go money from my clasm8s!

we made a bet !
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DrLithium 2 months ago
Total fake, there are very few things in the world that produce visible light by chemical reactions. The most common ones are luminol, singlet oxygen, and peroxylates (cyalume). Neither matches nor a tomato contain any of these things. The lesser common ones are so weak as to be invisible to a household camera.

In short, whatever this is. It's not working like the video suggests, thus it's fake.
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JustYourLocalRocketScientist last month
peroxylates? umm tomatoes contain oxalic acid in good amounts, and if you used strong enough hydrogen peroxide, I think there is a chance of this creating a peroxylate. My guess is that the bleach and high phosphorus match heads are used more as an aid in the natural glowing of the peroxide/oxalic acid reaction either in the form of a catalyst or other wise as a phosphorescent substance that would cause light generated in the uv end of the spectrum to become visible. I haven't researched the chemistry behind this, just positing a hypothesis on how this might be plausible.

Signed,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Engineer
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splint547 last month
i tried it and it didnt work DX
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blackmagic1937 last month
how long do u think the glow would last?
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ledzep330 last month
lol wonder how many people die from eating tomatoes with bleech in them
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killersson 3 weeks ago
i DONT think its a FAKE
(pretty damn confusing message)
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Kouji03 3 weeks ago
where can i get hydrogen peroxide?
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TragediesUnltd 2 weeks ago
I say, all the people who say FAKE, have you even tried it yet? If not, then u are a #$%@tard and should be eradicated immediately. Not to say that i've tried it. it seems a bit like the glowing mountain dew... whick CAN be done, but not in tthe way the videos say.
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falconraid 1 week ago
ah a toxic tomato, prehaps i should give one to the neighbours saying its a magic potato from the vegetable/fruit king and eating it will make u immortal
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