Hydrogen Retrobright Experiment
Testing if it's possible to retrobright plastic using hydrogen.
Mr Gigabyte's "Retrobrite Gigsplained": • Retrobrite Gigsplained
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After watching a video about retrobright (link above) I got the idea that maybe you could retrobright plastic using hydrogen gas. This is my attempt to test hydrogen gas (in water) as a method of retrobrighting plastic.
Index:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Hydrogen water
03:31 Magnesium
04:19 Selecting key-caps
05:04 Setting up
08:20 Monitoring
13:12 Results
17:55 Conclusion
I'm assuming that sun-brightening is responsible for the minimal lightening on the keys in plain water and hydrogen water. The polypropylene containers must be transparent to UV. The magnesium tablet solution probably blocked the UV so no sun-brightening happened there.
Any number of other factors, including the keys themselves, may have made hydrogen peroxide reaction slower than I was expecting.
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