Wow!

A New ink from Noodler's is being released which can only be seen under a black light called Blue Ghost!

Now, I can't see using this ink to take Music History notes, but it sure does sound cool! I'll have to get a bottle of this!

Bryan

Ooooooh, coooool!

Permanent, too!

Same suggested price (and price per unit of measure) as Eternal Luxury Blue.

I don't see any immediate use for it myself, but it does look like a lot of fun.

I wonder if the UV component of natural sunlight makes it show up at all.

Goodwhiskers,

The UV component of sunlight would make the text glow, but the flourescence would be so little relative to the total sunlight relected off the page that the text wouldn't be noticeable.

Edward T.

Very, very !

And very timely really as I seem to be running out of my super duper Secret Service spy ink. :doh:

I have to get at least one bottle of this stuff.


G.

Hi Bryan,
Yes,it is very nice and very cool one Thanks for info and pics

Take Care
Emrecan

Very cool stuff, although I don't have much use for it currently

Hi,

This would be nice in my Plunger pen. My plunger pen would glow in the blacklight, and the words would too.

Dillon

This seems like just the thing for marking books. Or taking notes in a disco.

Very fun ink, but impractical for having an entire new bottle. I also like firefly, but haven't brought it because it's impractical.

Neat. I'm sure I will give it a try - maybe I can get one of my sons interested in fountain pens (as long as he doesn't use mine!)

I have a 10 pack of Gelly Roll Moonlight gel pens that are supposed to glow under blacklight, but I don't have any blacklight at home. What is blacklight used for?

Depends on how much you use highlighter. Firefly in a BBB or a nice 1.5 or greater italic is an excellent highlighter. If you want to use an FP to highlight and do a lot of highlighting, it's quite practical. I only have a sample of it myself but will probably break down and buy a bottle sometime in the future if I ever get back to writing. it even works well on top of other Noodler's inks as long as you only swipe across your writing once.

I love how Noodlers push the boundries. I might buy some just for the heck of it.

Anyone know anything about any other inks they're going to release? I remember seeing one with a picture of a bike on it I think specially made for a company in the U.K.?

Firefly, impractical? Not in my Sailor 1911 with Zoom nib. It's the best highlighter I have!

That's quite a pricey highliter you have there Unlike writing pens, Accent, Avery, whatever brand yellow highliter will get the job done for me

It is "light" mostly in the UVA range, and what it does is light up anything phosphorous. When visible normal light is absent, only the lit up phosphor is visible. When the visible spectrum is also present in the source, the phosphor light emission can be overpowered to remain invisible (someone correct me if I am wrong). You can probably buy a black fluorescent or incandescent bulb at places like Home Depot. Applications are many, and I think they include marking dollar bills, tracing fluid leaks, and even making fish glow in aquariums

I imagine this ink is just plain water with some phosphor and mold supressant added. I guess it can be used to write secret notes, whether sophomoric, romantic, or criminal So such activities can now be conducted with class by using a FP instead of a lowly gel pen or marker

Wow! That looks fun! I'd like to try that one too.

The Noodler's website says that it's permanent, so it must be cellulose-reactive.

I can think of uses by teachers and professors to make cheating less easy by controlling test forms and exam "blue books."

Best use of phosphorous ink was in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds!

No the fish won't glow. Even if you have the clear ones with the colored stripes. I tried in college but I think the black light kept reflecting off the top of the water. Maybe if there was a way to submerge the bulb. Of course if I had thought about that back in school I would probably have had 6 funerals for all 6 fish I would have killed Either that or dinner.

I have never tried myself, but I think you have to have near complete darkness and then turn on the black light.

The thing was that the black light picked up on all the stuff in the water. I thought I had sparkling clean water till I lit it with the BL then it looked all hazy inside.

I read in an article a couple years ago that they actually bleach these fish and then paint on the neon stripes.

I've had better luck as a kid with them glowing in normal light, not in a black light.

Cheers!

Anyone remembers these black light T-Shirts and posters in the early 90's ? I'm sure you can still find those in "gothic" stores. And wasn't black light also very popular in clubs during the same era ?

They also have tattoo inks that are Black Light reactive.

I think I also read somewhere that there are glowing genetically modified fish that the USA doesn't allow. Yes, they're actually on the illegal imports list. I think it was the FDA which put them on the exclude list.

That's just what I recall in passing. I thought it was funny because some people collect fish and evidently, they'd have a hard time getting them here.

Which reminds me of a recent news bit about some research group in Taiwan that has genetically enginereed pigs that are fluorescent green. Whereas previous pigs were only skin deep green, these are supposedly green inside out

I presume that this fluorescent ink is actually just one of the components of 'Luxury Blue', as the latter one is said to be blue in any lighting conditions. This transparent component glows blueish ( ) with UV light ...

Errr....so then do you get green ham with eggs?

Animals that flouresce have a protein called Green Flourescent Protein in them. GFP was a protein naturally occuring in certain gellyfish. Having discovered the sequence for this gene, researchers can now add it to developing embryos and have the sequence incorporated into the organisms genome. As the organism develops each cell can express this protein. This allows for the creation of a glowing organism. I believe they have made even monkeys that glow.....scary huh?

Just waiting for glowing humans

How well would it mix with other colours ? Would it dilute them too much for it to be visible under UV light when mixed ?