STARGLOW Green Luminous Powder
Price range: £9.99 through £279.00
Next Generation Photo-luminescent Glow Powder.
The Starglow range of premium grade, next-generation glow powders, are industrial-strength photo-luminescent (phosphorescent) Pigments, which are a neutral off-white / pale green in daylight and can Glow-in-the-Dark for several hours (greater than 24 hours in some cases). Each colour in the Starglow range is heat, solvent and water resistant, which makes them extremely versatile and suitable for use in many commercial, safety and craft-based applications.
See ‘Important Notes‘ tab for more details. If you require any advice or assistance in choosing the right product for your purpose, contact us on: 0161 726 5904 or email: help@glowtec.co.uk If you are unsure of how this product works or its suitability for your purpose, please email or call to discuss first and / or order a 25g sample to try.
GLOWTEC Quality Assured:Â If it doesn’t bear our name, then its not the same!
Only Starglow Powders are Guaranteed for 10 years.
Loose powder products are non-returnable. Prices exclude VAT and Delivery.
Click here for a full introduction and overview of this product.
About Luminous Powder
Suitable for use with most clear / opaque mediums such as clear paint, epoxy resin, glass, wax, plastic. ink, glues, silicone, nail polish and screen printing ink etc
Starglow powder can be charged (excited) indefinitely by most forms of natural or artificial light and last many years.
For most applications between 15-30% powder to medium will produce the best results.
Do not grind / mill the glow powder as this will damage its crystalline structure and prevent it from working.
Always use against a white background as this will enhance and enrich the resultant glow, where as a dark background will reduce the glow and impede the powders’ effectiveness.
Glow powder does not dissolve into any medium it is simply suspended or allowed to settle as a glowing layer.
Glow powder has a high specific gravity so it will usually settle relatively quickly unless the viscosity / thickness of the medium is high enough to keep it suspended.
The powder can cope with high temperatures (600 C) and so is suitable for use in glass kilns.
Starglow Stardust is very durable and long-lived making it suitable for indoor use and well as limited outdoors use.
Whilst Stardust is non-toxic, ensure use by children is properly supervised by an adult.
About UV Blacklight
There is so much mis-information online about UV light (Blacklight) we’ll clear up a few main points here…
Is brighter really better?
No. Absolutely not. UV is invisible to the human eye so ideally you should see nothing! What you do see is visible ‘interference’ light (known as spill) and is a bi-product of poor quality inferior UV LEDs. This bright, purple glare is not UV and only serves to illuminate the search area, actually making it harder to see the actual fluoresce you are looking for!
The UV rule of thumb is:Â The brighter it is, the worse it is!
This is why our UV PRO range are made with a special UV PRO filter which removes all visible light and only lets the invisible UV light through. This produces great, professional results.
The more LEDs the better?
Again. Absolutely not. The greater the number of inferior (cheap) LEDs the torch has, the more visible interference light it produces and the worse the result.
Tip:Â Avoid any UV Torch with more than 9 LEDS.
Does frequency matter?
Yes. The frequency of UV light emitted determines the quality of results obtained. There is a sweet-spot for UV which is between 365nm and 385nm. However, to manufacture LEDs capable of emitting in this frequency range is far more expensive. The cheap UV torches sold on eBay and Amazon, will use inferior quality Chinese made LEDs emitting in the range of 390 – 410nm. At this range the UV light is a very poor quality and the visible light output is at its highest (see here for more about UV Blacklight).
GLOWTEC UV PRO Forensic Torches are made using high quality KOREAN made 365-385nm UV LEDs which peak at 380nm with a much lower visible light output. This provides the best balance of quality, performance and price with excellent value for money.
See our short video to see why –> Comparison of UV Torches
What should I expect to see?
That really depends on what it is your are looking at / looking for!
Unlike man-made fluorescent materials such as white fabric, white paper and STARGLOW products which all fluoresce brightly under UV blacklight, natural fluorescent substances such as urine and body fluids, which whilst they do glow (fluoresce) under UV light, do not fluoresce brightly! In fact they are generally quite dim, so do not expect a supernova!
The colour shown under UV light is determined by the chemical composition of the substance, not the UV light itself.
Delivery
See ‘Delivery’ tab on the menu bar for more detailed shipping and delivery information.
Whilst we can usually turn around most web orders within 1-3 working days. Please allow time for the order to be processed and produced for you. If you have genuinely urgent order, please contact us first to ensure we are able to turn around your order in time. Please appreciate that there will be other customer’s orders ahead in the queue!
Orders Dispatched: TUESDAYs (Post/Special-D)  WEDNESDAYs (Courier)  THURSDAYs (Post/Special-D) FRIDAYs (Courier)
Please Note: We are unable to ship web orders on Mondays.
UK Delivery options
Standard Delivery is a flat rate delivery charge using Royal Mail’s 1st Class Parcel Post.
Special-Delivery (small parcels) and UK Courier (larger/heavier parcels) will provide a swift next day delivery from the day of dispatch and NOT from the date of order.
Note: We do not to offer a specific ‘Next Day Delivery’ option as we cannot realistically guarantee such a service, especially in the current climate.
If you require a recorded / tracked delivery, please select either the Express Delivery or Courier Delivery option at checkout.
EU & International Orders
Owing to the higher cost or processing and shipping EU and International orders we have a £44 Minimum Order Value (MOV) for VAT Exempt Business orders.
However, due to new EU VAT rules, private (B2C) orders have a £135 Minimum Order Value. Please Note: Whilst we will not add VAT to your order, VAT will be payable once the goods have arrived in your country.
Business Orders destined for the EU will require a Company Name, VAT Number and EORI Number for customs clearance.
We will only ship EU and International orders at the Buyers risk. Once the goods are handed over to the courier they become the buyers property and responsibility.
For reasons of security and speed, we only ship EU and International orders via Express Courier. Delivery charges are calculated at checkout.
| Weight | 0.5 kg |
|---|---|
| Pack Size | 50g, 1 Kg, 100g, 250g, 25g, 500g |
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