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I was browsing Reddit and I stumbled upon this. It is a video on making duct tape glow a blue light by pulling two pieces of duct tape apart. Appearntly the glowing is caused by something called Triboluminescence.

Triboluminescence is an optical phenomenon in which light is generated through the breaking of chemical bonds in a material when it is pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed. The phenomenon is not fully understood, but appears to be caused by the separation and reunification of electrical charges. (Wikipedia)

This doesn't tell me very much, mostly because I don't fully understand what "separation and reunification of electrical charges." really means. So can anyone explain how seperation and reunification of electric charges can give rise to this blue glow?

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Do you know that you are glowing right now? Especially your brain that glow alpha and beta wave, known as aura

When electron was shaken by any action it would always generate electromagnetic wave. However, normally electron was not shaken in enough frequency to generate visible light so you never see it. But sometimes it can generate visible light and when you can see it, it was called luminescence

Triboluminesense is the name given to any mechanical action that breaking chemical bond which can shake electron in the visible frequency

By breaking chemical bond it shaking electron but each chemical bond in each material not always shake electron in the same frequency. And only some will generate visible light

There are many kind of effect that can shake electron to glow, even now you are glowing infrared because electron in molecule shaken from temperature. And when the iron is very hot, it would glow red hot by this effect (called incandescence)

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