Imagine one of these breaking while it’s in your ass.
Go on…
That’s how he got his superpowers.
He gives lethal ass cancer to evil people
That’s hot
I found a little uranium glass icecream dish at a used hardware store. Best $1 spend ever.
Does it come with a metallic taste in your mouth for free?
They are surprisingly safe to eat from. As long as you are not ingesting pieces of the glass itself, you are perfectly fine.
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
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 upThey 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.
Except that unlike arsenic, Uranium glass isn’t dangerous. Go check out the health section in the above link.
Uranium glass isn’t dangerous.
it is very dangerous to glass workers. They can inhale radioactive dust and uranium could release radon when heated.
2% although some 20th-century pieces were made with up to 25% uranium.
Uranium half-life […] varies between 159,200 and 4.5 billion years
Oho? So they will keep glowing for a while?
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.
They don’t glow. That’s misleading. Uranium salt just makes a cool green color.
