Chemistry and Inventions: Elementary and Middle Schools
CO2 to the Rescue! How acid base chemical reaction can be applied to save a cell phone from sinking to the bottom of a lake.
Green Plants Red Glow – Discovering the Invisible Light Inside Every Leaf NC SciFest
In plants, most of the absorbed light energy is channeled into photosynthesis, and the tiny amount that is emitted as red fluorescence is not visible by the naked eye but is detectable by satellites.
Imagine if every plant in your backyard was secretly a neon light, glowing with a hidden signal that only special cameras can see.
Even though leaves look green, they are actually screaming a tiny, hidden red glow into the world. Here is the secret story of the Red Glow of all green plants.
Let’s extract chlorophyll from spinach leaves and directly observe the red light (fluorescence) emitted by the chlorophyll upon illumination.
NC State Olympiad Expo 2026
Green Plants Red Glow- spot light on chlorophyll, the green pigment of life on Earth with participants and visitors at State Science Olympiad.
