Blu-ray vs white wine

Seoul_lasers said:

Ethyl Alcohol is fluorescent in 405nm light according to several documents online.

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Source? I just tried it with Everclear (95% ethanol) and got nothing at all.

Burnsy said:

Dude wow, that looks beautiful!
and Benm lol you have to drink a lot more... so you can shine thru the glass and not the bottle

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Finally a good excuse... i'll try the bluray on a drinks i drink at home.

i always like the green beam i get when shining my 12x trough a bottle of wiskey

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Interesting - i think that might depend on the kind of whiskey, as well as any added colouring in there. In europe its legal to color whiskey with caramel (same as used in cola), which could result in the brownish fluorescense observed.

Some fluids have fluorescent dyes to detect leakages - coolant could be one of them, but its also frequently used as a tracer to find air conditioner leaks in cars. Those substances arent good for experiments though, since they mostly boil at room temperature. You could dissolve the dye in another nonpolar solvent to keep it at room temp without the solution evaporating that quickly.