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11 comments to "Uranium Glassware."
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Miss Cellania
November 30th, 2006 at
5:58 am
This stuff fetches a pretty penny on eBay, too! Antique collectors sometimes carry a small blacklight to check for authenticity when looking for uranium glass. I think I’ll stick to cobalt and depression glass myself.
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Paul
November 30th, 2006 at
8:14 am
The plural of glassware is glassware, not glasswareS.
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Lasse
November 30th, 2006 at
9:20 am
And is is with a small “g”?
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Eric
November 30th, 2006 at
9:44 am
Some older orange-red Fiestaware was made with glaze containing uranium. I believe it’s even more radioactive than the glass.
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pld
November 30th, 2006 at
9:47 am
Many people seem do have the impression that uranium or other radioactive materials actually glow green like that in natural light (I think the Simpsons title sequence is to blame here). You don’t mention that the stuff only glows when ultraviolet light is cast on it in dark. Wikipedia actually describes the appearance of uranium as “silvery gray metallic” i.e. like any generic metal.
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Billy
November 30th, 2006 at
11:40 am
In Athens GA there used to be a General Time clock factory. The girls who painted the radium dots on the clock faces were told to lick their brushes to make the point sharper for better detail. After the factory closed, it was declared a toxic waste site.
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Alex
November 30th, 2006 at
12:49 pm
Fixed, thanks Paul!
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Tom Papura
November 30th, 2006 at
7:22 pm
The radiation levels of any Vaseline glass are minimal compared to many other consumer products containing naturally occurring radioactive materials. As a professional health physicist I find this posting poorly written and misleading as some other comments have eluded.
“Depleted uranium” is still radioactive. It merely has a reduced abundance of the isotope U-235 as that isotope was needed for the first reactors and bombs in this country’s early atomic weapons/energy program.
See linked web site for a great collection of consumer items, etc. collected by Paul Frame of ORISE in Oak Ridge, TN.
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ted
November 30th, 2006 at
9:11 pm
Yeah.
It’s not really “radioactive” in the sense that it’s anything dangerous.As a professional spelling nitpicker, I find the previous post poorly written: “as some other comments have eluded”?
Perhaps you meant “alluded”.
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Tom Papura
December 1st, 2006 at
1:21 pm
I’d say it’s more of a grammar or word choice issue rather than spelling “ted” so now YOU stand corrected as I am fairly certain I spelled eluded correctly, but in fact I did mean alluded. Yes, mea culpa or however the saying goes, but click on my name in comment #8 and see for yourself all the wonderful things radioactive that were once sold……
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ted
December 1st, 2006 at
6:22 pm
LOL
I’d have to disagree.
If you spell the word “too”, but you mean the word “to”, or “loose” for “lose”, I would call it a spelling error.So now you stand corrugated.
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