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......

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.