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I had no idea that rocks could glow under a UV light before we saw this kit. I must say, this is really neat science from Dr. Cool. I was very impressed with how the ultraviolent light (included) makes each rock glow in a different color. This product was a huge hit in our house.

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The Glow Rocks Kit comes with an activity booklet, an adventure guide, a UV lamp, and six glow rocks. We learn about why things glow, the different wavelengths of light, and how to identify seven types of minerals: hackmanite, sphaelerite, wernerite, willemite, common opal, fluorite, and calcite.

Impressive. The rocks fluoresce, all of them differently, and the children experimented. There were ten suggested experiments in all:

1) Look at the rocks under the UV lamp.

2) See how the rocks fluoresce in water.

3) See how the rocks fluoresce when the UV lamp is behind sunglasses.

4) See how the rocks fluoresce when different strength sunscreens are applied.

5) See how different toothpastes glow.

6) Look at different currencies of bills under the UV lamp.

7) Look at different stamps under the UV lamp.

8) Look at different driver's licenses and passports and ID cards under the UV lamp.

9) Test objects around the house to see if they glow.

10) Look at objects outdoors to see if they glow.

My children were not as able to focus on this kit as well as they did with the other kits, but they did enjoy it. Personally, I think the wonderful thing about this kit is when the children finish, the UV lamp will transform into my portable doggie urine detector!

This product was provided for review by Discover with Dr. Cool.

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This is a fun kit for the little scientist in your house. It is a little expensive as a kit but black lights are not cheap in general. What I liked about this kit: the rocks all glow, some more than others but they are good specimens (about an inch or more in size). The black light is small and portable making the possibility of finding other luminescent items a lot easier and fun. The light has a double feature of being a black light and a regular 'flashlight' which we used a lot to see the difference between the black light colors and the 'white light' colors without having to turn the overhead lights on and off.

My 8-year-old had fun walking around looking for other glowing items in her room including her own rock collection from the 'pick a bag of rocks' bins.

This is nicely packaged and makes a good gift idea. The kit is a little pricy but the benefit of it is up to you as the consumer to get more out of it with the bonus activities and research.

Best of all, this kit is Made in the USA.

Dr. Cool provided a complimentary kit for evaluation and an unbiased review.

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I got this for my 8 year old daughter. She loves it, but honestly either the light is really weak, or the rocks don't glow much. I can hardly see them in the dark with the light shining on them. I might try a better black light to see if it helps.

The rocks certainly do not look like the illustration shown here. You can barely see any color.

She still likes it though.

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My 8 y/o daughter loves collecting rocks and minerals. This item was on her xmas wishlist last year and her uncle got it for her. The kit was everything we hoped it would be. All the rocks are a fair size (about 1"-2" each) and react to UV nicely. The black light still works a year later! My daughter still loves getting these rocks out and making them glow.

The kit costs a bit more money than others you might come across, but it's well worth it for the quality. I had gotten my daughter a different glowing rocks kit elsewhere, for half the price, and it was garbage. The rocks were tiny and most of them didn't react to UV at all.