c/wikipedia · by Plum@lemmy.world · 91dUranium glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass94 points · 16 comments · view on lemmy.world
16 Comments
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 17 pts · 91d
Imagine one of these breaking while it's in your ass.
coalie@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 91d
Go on...
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 91d
That's how he got his superpowers.
He gives lethal ass cancer to evil people
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
That's hot
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 91d
I found a little uranium glass icecream dish at a used hardware store. Best $1 spend ever.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 91d
Does it come with a metallic taste in your mouth for free?
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 91d
They are surprisingly safe to eat from. As long as you are not ingesting pieces of the glass itself, you are perfectly fine.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 91d
I just have some seashells in it. It's too small to really be worth eating out of. Was probably part of a bigger set
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 91d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fluorescent_Uranium_Depression_Glass.jpg
This one looks like it's from an older game.
Nilered made videos on making it and cleaning up the waste :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGw6fXprV9U Making it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZUqSncJ5U0 Cleaning it up
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 91d
They had great ideas back then. Uranium gave a nice green color to glass, and arsenic made nice green wallpaper. Entire families died for a fashionable green shade of wallpaper.
Mandarbmax@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 91d
Except that unlike arsenic, Uranium glass isn't dangerous. Go check out the health section in the above link.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 90d
it is very dangerous to glass workers. They can inhale radioactive dust and uranium could release radon when heated.
liran@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 91d
Come and join us in the Lemmy UG Community
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 91d
Oho? So they will keep glowing for a while?
tal@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 90d
The glow is it fluorescing under UV light, like glow-in-the-dark UV paint if you have a blacklight. It's not a result of internal radioactivity.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 90d
They don't glow. That's misleading. Uranium salt just makes a cool green color.