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Imagine one of these breaking while it's in your ass.
That's hot
Go on...
That's how he got his superpowers.
He gives lethal ass cancer to evil people
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
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.
Except that unlike arsenic, Uranium glass isn't dangerous. Go check out the health section in the above link.
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
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?
They don't glow. That's misleading. Uranium salt just makes a cool green color.
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.