The Great Crime Scene Showdown....

My Experiment - The Showdown!
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Touring a Real Crime Lab
A Blood Detector - Luminol
A Secret Formula Called Bluestar
My Experiment - The Showdown!
The Scene of the Crime!
The Showdown Winner!
What Would Veronica DO???

How Can I Measure Which Method of Latent Blood Detection is Better - Bluestar or Luminol?

Click here to see video of mixing Bluestar

Click here to see video of mixing Luminol

Luminol photo taken at the Crime Lab tour
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Bloodstained t-shirt glowing with Luminol

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Vernier Light Sensor
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A SCIENTIFIC way to measure

Bluestar photo from my experiment
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Bloodstained drywall glowing with Bluestar

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MY PLAN:
I will use a light sensor from the high school science lab to measure the luminance (brightness) given off by the glow from Bluestar and Luminol. Light sensors give a number reading on a scale called "lux." This gives me a scientific way to compare the luminance readings of the two blood detection sprays to DISCOVER THE WINNER!!!

Mixing Bluestar
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My Hypothesis: If sections of drywall soaked with 2ml of synthetic blood are cleaned after 1 hour using 5 different cleaning methods and sprayed with Luminol or Bluestar after 5 days, then the drywall sections sprayed with Bluestar will have the highest luminance readings measured with a light sensor.