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Wordless Wednesday - Glowing Ice Sphere

Wednesday November 12, 2008
Glowing Ice Sphere (Anne Helmenstine)

Make a glowing ice sphere to float in a bowl of punch or to throw in the dark. Crush the ice and have a glow-in-the-dark snowball fight!

Comments

November 12, 2008 at 8:45 am
(1) barb says:

Now that would be cool in the punchbowl!

November 12, 2008 at 9:01 am
(2) NSGill says:

Other than the quinine, I don’t know if I’d really want to ingest the other products deliberately, but it does look like fun for a snowball fight.

November 12, 2008 at 9:18 am
(3) Beth says:

Wow! Now that’s cool!! I want to watch that snowball fight — what fun! :-D

November 12, 2008 at 9:52 am
(4) Shirlie says:

Ooooo…. that is cool!! I’m off to read your article so I can have one myself.!

November 12, 2008 at 9:55 am
(5) Nancy says:

Completely amazing. And I thought freezing fruit in an ice ring jazzed up a punchbowl!

November 12, 2008 at 3:17 pm
(6) Bonds, Elizabeth Bonds. says:

Neato!!!!! I wish I had one to play with. That is too cool

Happy WW!

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