First Glow Sticks

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Glow sticks started when scientists tried to replicate the natural bioluminescence, the light emitted by organisms such as fireflies. In the 1960's Edwin Chandross of Bell Labs patented the first glow sticks out of oxalyl chloride and hydrogen peroxide. Building on "Chandross' discovery, a team from the labe called American ?Cynaamid led by Michael M. Rabut created an oxalate ester named pehenyl oxalate to replace the oxaly

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