- *Inexpensive BLACK LITE TEST*
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- The fluorescing characteristics of each are fascinating.
They start glowing about their complete portion long before they are even
directly in the light path, and will do so even if you have a moderate-wattage
incandescent bulb lit simultaneously (just for inspection purposes). They
also "respond" very quickly to black light "stimuli"
- meaning they need no "charge" time, they "peak" as
fast as you can bring the light over - and put forth an amazing glow for
something so absolutely invisible under normal sunlight illumination -
or for that matter, under standard household or office lighting.
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- PRE-REQS:
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- - You'll need a very dark room, or a room at night with
a standard-type light which can be switched off.
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- - You'll need some type of black light source - either
a fluorescent tube-type fixture, or an incandescent "screw-in"
bulb, both of which are readily available through lighting and novelty
stores.
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- - Your skin should amply magnify the light difference
of these patches and filaments if they're present; for clothing, however,
dark clothes are best; light clothes tend to reflect a lot of the light
on their own, reducing the effective contrast and making it virtually impossible
to see the glowing patches or microfilaments.
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- - A good mirror is essential as well, for personal inspection.
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- Give yourself a few minutes to "get used" to
looking at things under the black light - everything appears kind of "weird"
- eye and skin color, you'll notice unusual "markings" on yourself
that disappear under normal light, colors may change completely, etc. You
may even notice the familiar "soap scum" left from waxy/oily
residues in the soaps you may use. Not to worry, just give your eyes time
to adjust.
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- Things that stand out:
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- - How the microfilaments "migrate" about your
person and living space, turning up in well-lived-in areas, but being almost
completely absent in others;
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- - How the "web-like" imagery used to describe
the airborne trails (as they are dropped and begin to spread out) still
holds up; the microfilaments, when you study them quite closely, are remarkably
similar in size and general characteristics -- they look like very tiny,
crooked parts of a cobweb which simply have "broken apart" and
blown onto your clothing with the wind.
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- - How very, very "fluorescing" these tiny patches
and filaments seem to be, keeping in characteristic with BaTiO3's almost
unique abilities to virtually "magnify" certain wavelengths of
light.
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- - How "tenacious" some of the filaments are,
and how extraordinarily "persistent" some of the patches are,
as if they had been formulated or mixed originally in a solvent base.
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