A glitter refill based on Calcium Chloride to create a high specific gravity solution to support glitter. The colour is inkjet refill ink with a few drops of magenta and about ten drops of yellow to give a bright tungsten-friendly orange colour.
There are various grades of calcium chloride, and the best choice is food-grade as it is very pure, but the stuff I got was “hexahydrate” (six molecules of water?) and very slushy. I guess if you could get pure CaCl2 in “dihydrate” form (which is very dry and white) it would require much less weight of the calcium chloride to water. As it is, it required only about 300ml of water to 1kg of the slushy calcium chloride.
The choice of glitter is important too. It should be coated glitter which has the layer of clear plastic, a metallisation layer and a protective coating that prevents the metal from tarnishing or corroding in the strong solution. Fortunately most common glitters on ebay seem to be coated. Some coloured glitters lose their coloured coating into the water, so I tend to recommend using plain silver glitter.
Post time: Jun-21-2017