Comments on: Uranium Glassware. http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/ The Neat Side of the Web Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:58:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: John1885 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-1039322 John1885 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:39:31 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-1039322 w00t green glass w00t green glass

]]> By: ted http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55433 ted Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:22:54 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55433 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. :-) 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.
:-)

]]> By: Tom Papura http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55383 Tom Papura Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:21:11 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55383 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...... 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……

]]> By: ted http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55236 ted Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:11:30 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55236 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". ;-) 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”.
;-)

]]> By: Tom Papura http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55208 Tom Papura Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:22:31 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55208 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. 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.

]]> By: Alex http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55100 Alex Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:49:41 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55100 Fixed, thanks Paul! Fixed, thanks Paul!

]]> By: Billy http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55084 Billy Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:40:28 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55084 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. 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.

]]> By: pld http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55063 pld Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:47:36 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55063 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. 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.

]]> By: Eric http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55061 Eric Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:44:11 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55061 Some older orange-red Fiestaware was made with glaze containing uranium. I believe it's even more radioactive than the glass. Some older orange-red Fiestaware was made with glaze containing uranium. I believe it’s even more radioactive than the glass.

]]> By: Lasse http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55057 Lasse Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:20:31 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55057 And is is with a small "g"? And is is with a small “g”?

]]> By: Paul http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55044 Paul Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:14:08 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55044 The plural of glassware is glassware, not glasswareS. The plural of glassware is glassware, not glasswareS.

]]> By: Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55022 Miss Cellania Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:58:20 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/30/uranium-glasswares/#comment-55022 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. 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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