uranium glass
Glowing vintage dishes
Uranium glass is glassware containing uranium oxide, which gives it a distinctive yellow-green color and causes it to glow bright green under ultraviolet light.
Popular from the mid-1800s through the early 20th century for decorative items and tableware, it contains trace amounts of radioactivity considered harmless at normal exposure levels.
Collectors prize it for its eerie fluorescence.
- black lightUltraviolet radiation source
- translucentPermitting diffused light passage
- radioactiveEmitting nuclear decay particles
- glowSteady, soft light
- fluorescenceLight emitted after absorption
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