UV/Blacklight Uses: Get Scientific Data from It!

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Folks, I'm going to acquire a UV bulb. What stuff can I do with it? Not only glamorous stuff, but stuff that I will be able to obtain scientific data from?
 

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One handy use for blacklights is to examine mineral specimens. You can go to a rock-hound site or two and see how this can be handy and which frequencies would be best to use. Here's a primer:

http://www.uvsystems.com/articles/R_G_Article_5.pdf
 
Or you could just go find out what kinds of stuff from the human body glows under black light =D

Pee is one of them.
 
Bloodthunder said:
Or you could just go find out what kinds of stuff from the human body glows under black light =D

Pee is one of them.

Oh yeah! I'd surely like to check, compare and contrast that one :P