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 Ever fancy yourself a bit of a mad scientist? Always looking for the next project or neat experiment that will impress your friends and scare your neighbors? Not all mad scientists are bent on world domination after all.

So how does glow fruit strike you? Yeah, I’m talking a real do-it yourself, no nuclear waste necessary, glow in the dark fruit. If your interested check out the simple instructions and the video after the jump.

The Materials:

1. A box of non-safety matches
2. Bleach
3. A tomato
4. Hydrogen peroxide

The Tools:

1. Small Knife
2. Small Container (for mixing)
3. Syringe

The whole process shouldn’t take more than an hour.

The Instructions:

1. Remove matches from their container, and use your knife to scrape the match head material into your container.
2. Pour only enough bleach into the container to cover the match head material. All the material to fully dissolve into the bleach.
3. Once the mixture has set for long enough you should start to see two layers to your mixture. A liquid top layer and a layer composed mostly of solids at the bottom. Let sit for 20 min.
4. Now that you have your two layers use the syringe to collect the top liquid layer. Inject A small amount some of this liquid into your tomato.
5. Repeat the injection process all over the tomato, space your injections about 1 inch apart. Continue untill you have used up your liquid.
6. Fill the empty syringe with hydrogen peroxide and inject in into the center of your tomato.
7. Continue injecting the hydrogen peroxide until the tomato has started to glow.
8. Enjoy your new creation.

On the off chance that you were considering that it might be fun to eat your new glowing tomato. DON’T! You’ve injected a lethal amount of chemicals into your tomato. IF YOU EAT IT YOU WILL DIE. You won’t glow nor will you get to show off your awesome tomato, and thats just not right.

Video instructions are below: Have fun!