STARGLOW POWDER
Premium Grade Photo-Luminescent Powders
High performance luminous glow powders for use in most spirit, oil and water based mediums.
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So what are Glow-in-the-Dark powders?
Starglow photo-luminescent powders, are essentially microscopic photo-luminescent crystals, which absorb invisible UV energy from existing light sources and then re-emit most of that energy as visible light.
This process happens in real-time so glow powders actually glow all the time, its just that in normal lighting conditions we cannot see this glow effect, but it does tend to give the powder a light greenish appearance. Most of the energy stored by the crystals is re-emitted immediately, however some of that energy is retained and slowly released as a gradually diminishing afterglow.
Starglow Powders are heat, solvent and water resistant, which makes them extremely versatile and suitable for use in hundreds of safety, commercial, artistic and craft applications.
Starglow Powders are ECO safe and non-toxic, can be recharged thousands of times and will last many years.
Suitable Clear mediums...
- SPIRIT BASED
- WATER BASED
- EPOXY RESIN
- ACRYLICS
- GLASS
For optimum performance, Starglow powder should be applied over a suitable white (or white-primed) background.
The Professionals choice
Starglow Powder is high quality, next-generation, industrial strength, premium grade photo-luminescent powder compatible with most mediums and able to cope with extremes of temperature. It is durable, highly versatile and very long-lasting as is underpinned by our unique 10 year guarantee.
- Multi-Medium Compatible
- Very High Peformance
- 20 Year+ Active Lifespan
- High Temperature Tolerant
- Non-Toxic & ECO safe
- Guaranteed 10 years
Not all glow powders are the same!
Each colour of Starglow powder has different performance characteristics from the next. For example, Starglow Green has the brightest, longest glowing and most vibrant glow colour, where as Starglow Purple has the weakest glow colour and the shortest glow duration of them all! Somewhere in between these two, all the other glow colours have their place. In short, colour comes at the price of performance.
So why are our powders so good?
We do not cut corners on quality nor do we use cheap low-performing ingredients, quite the opposite. When you compare Starglow Powders with those from other companies, you’ll see the difference.
Starglow Powders glow brighter, last longer and look better, but yes, they do cost a little more, but then we do guarantee our glow powders for 10 years.
Beware of cheap imitations. If it does not bear our are name, then it is NOT the same.
Here we have a fabulous creation by Adrian Barber. A glow-resin in-fill made using Starglow Green Powder.
Starglow powders are ECO safe, non-toxic and non-radioactive.
Starglow Powder at a glance
- Safe and non-toxic luminous SMART powder
- Multi-medium compatibility
- Suitable for use in water-borne mediums
- Particle size: 35-40 mic
- Industrial grade for higher performance
- Guaranteed for 10 years
Suitable for use with most clear / opaque mediums such as clear paint, epoxy resin, glass, wax, plastic. ink, glues, silicone, nail polish and screen printing ink etc
Starglow powder can be charged (excited) indefinitely by most forms of natural or artificial light and last many years.
For most applications between 15-30% powder to medium will produce the best results.
Do not grind / mill the glow powder as this will damage its crystalline structure and prevent it from working.
Always use against a white background as this will enhance and enrich the resultant glow, where as a dark background will reduce the glow and impede the powders’ effectiveness.
Glow powder does not dissolve into any medium it is simply suspended or allowed to settle as a glowing layer.
Glow powder has a high specific gravity so it will usually settle relatively quickly unless the viscosity / thickness of the medium is high enough to keep it suspended.
The powder can cope with high temperatures (600 C) and so is suitable for use in glass kilns.
Starglow Stardust is very durable and long-lived making it suitable for indoor use and well as limited outdoors use.
Whilst Stardust is non-toxic, ensure use by children is properly supervised by an adult.
STARGLOW STARDUST
We now offer a new range of Starglow Stardust, a glow powder particle size 30 times larger than normal Starglow Powder.
Perfect for use in UV Resins and all clear mediums.
If you need help or advice, please call or email us. We are here to help you.
If you are unsure of how these powders work or their suitability for your purpose, please email or call to discuss first or order a sample to try.
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