{"id":8663,"date":"2007-03-03T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/lightsticks-in-the-toilet\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:09","slug":"lightsticks-in-the-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/lightsticks-in-the-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightsticks In The Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toilet after pouring in the contents of green and red cyalume lightsticks.
(Click for more photos of playing with Lightsticks In The Toilet (photo gallery retired)<\/em>…)<\/center><\/p>\n

Tonight while going through a few old boxes in the basement I came across red and green lightsticks<\/a>, still in the wrappers. So, I opened them and activated them. After playing around with them for a little while I decided to do something I played with when I was much younger, except this time I decided to take some pictures of it.<\/p>\n

What did I do? I cut open the light sticks and poured them in the toilet, watching the slowly changing, swirling psychedelic glow emanating from my toilet. Unfortunately these toilets aren’t that great for it, as most of the oily phenyl oxalate ester<\/a> and H2<\/sub>O2<\/sub> ran down into the bottom of the toilet and out of view. Still, there were some interesting things to see.<\/p>\n

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(Click to view each image at a larger size…)<\/center><\/p>\n

More photos of this all are available here in the Lightsticks In The Toilet (photo gallery retired)<\/em> album. Some of the better photos are:<\/p>\n

· Toilet water with just the green cyalume lightstick compound in it.<\/a>
\n· Red and green cyalume lightsticks setting on the toilet lid.<\/a>
\n· Closer image of the toilet water containing cyalume lightstick compound.<\/a>
\n· Lightstick compound swirling down the toilet as it is flushed.<\/a>
\n· Photo 1 of red and green cyalume lightstick compound in toilet.<\/a>
\n· Photo 2 of red and green cyalume lightstick compound in toilet.<\/a>
\n· Photo 3 of red and green cyalume lightstick compound in toilet.<\/a>
\n· Photo 4 of red and green cyalume lightstick compound in toilet.<\/a>
\n· Glowing sink containing the remains of the cut open lightsticks.<\/a>
\n· Lightsick remnants and cuts in the sink where I set them so they wouldn’t make a mess.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toilet after pouring in the contents of green and red cyalume lightsticks.(Click for more photos of playing with Lightsticks In The Toilet (photo gallery retired)…) Tonight while going through a few old boxes in the basement I came across red and green lightsticks, still in the wrappers. So, I opened them and activated them. After\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12967,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions\/12967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}