Tuesday, December 2, 2014

What the Xenon???

This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Xenon.  I had never heard of Xenon before this week.  But upon researching it I really love the look of Xenon.  Check this out.


Xenon is a gas similar to neon.  It also lights up for extremely short amounts of time.  In a gas-filled tube, xenon emits a blue or lavenderish glow when the gas is excited by electrical discharge. Xenon emits a band of emission lines that span the visual spectrum, but the most intense lines occur in the region of blue light, which produces the coloration.

So with that info I decided to do my inchie using 2 colors of Delicas.  One being matte opaque black and the other color an opaque rainbow power blue.  I was going for the glowing color thing.  I do think I did a good job on that point. 

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out the other great Xenon inchies.

12 comments:

  1. Fantastic bead work as always and a lovely bright sample to choose to follow.

    Love Chrissie x

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  2. Nice job. And thanks for the explanation. It has been to many years since school or college to remember my chemistry. LOL

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    1. thanks Paula, and you are welcome. That Trillian is so brilliant with her choices of words

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  3. Great beadwork, Freebird! And a great teenie rendition of the bigger inspiration. Have a brilliant day! c

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  4. Once again you have used beads to capture the inchie perfectly.

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  5. it's amazing how you can make letters so precisely - beautifully done

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    1. Thanks Kia, in this stitch letters are kinda hard to do, I am glad these came out as good as they did

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