Casey+A14

Casey A. 2013 - 2014
 * HOW MUCH LIGHT DOES GLOW IN THE DARK NAIL POLISH GIVES OFF **

The purpose of this experiment is to learn why some types of glow in the dark nail polish glow more than others. The important items of discovery are how glow in the dark works, how nail polish is made, what nails are made out of, and some experiments done before. The first experiment was meant to figure out which type of nail polish gave off the most amount of light. The results for the experiment showed that sparkly green nail polish glowed the most and sparkly blue nail polish glowed the least amount. The results were found because strontium aluminate, a pale yellow powder that can reflect light, is included when nail polish is being made.
 * ABSTRACT **

Improvements to this project could be trying to use different brands of glow in the dark nail polish and see what brand would be the best. Other improvements could consist of seeing which color really did come off the best from nails, because in one of the experiments instead of using fingernails black pieces of paper were used. A future experiment could be seeing which nail polish glows the most in a certain amount of sunlight. Another future experiment could be seeing which aged glow in the dark nail polish glowed the most.
 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **