Radioactive Glass.

Post by **Turbine** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:23 pm

Uranium gives interesting yellow and green colours and fluorescence effects when included to glass in conjunction with other additives. The image below is an English amphora dating to about 1930 showing a characteristic yellow-green colour. The image is from the Uranium Glass Gallery in Japan (http://www.parkcity.ne.jp/~ken-toma/1.2.html), where you can find further information about uranium glass. This type of glass is sometimes referred to as "vaseline glass" in the UK and USA and as "Annagelb" (yellow) or "Annagruen" (green) in Germany

What where people thinking of back then, I mean look at it glow!
http://www.parkcity.ne.jp/~ken-toma/L4/L4-9.jpg
Holly smokes, can you imagine being served something in a Uraniun Glass?

It Glows!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:48 pm

Wow. Just wow.

Post by **Foo** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:51 pm

Heh. Looks like that space lego plastic.

Post by **Turbine** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:52 pm

Foo wrote:Heh. Looks like that space lego plastic.

Holly smokes, it does!

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:18 pm

Foo wrote:Heh. Looks like that space lego plastic.

w3rd

Post by **Doombrain** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:24 pm

LOL, the company i work for made this clock

Post by **shaft** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:34 pm

You own a company?

Post by **Doombrain** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:37 pm

shaft wrote:You own a company?

what?

Post by **shaft** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:38 pm

Thats what I thought.

Post by **Doombrain** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:10 pm

Post by **menkent** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:19 pm

the little glow-in-the-dark bits on watches used to be a radium paint applied with a tiny brush. seems the factory workers would all lose their hair because they'd lick the brushes to keep the bristles in a sharp point. :oops: :radiowned:

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:00 pm

shaft wrote:Thats what I thought.

LOL! What was the thread where this pic was originally used? Didn't somebody die or something?

Post by **eepberries** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:07 pm

Nightshade wrote:
shaft wrote:Thats what I thought.

LOL! What was the thread where this pic was originally used? Didn't somebody die or something?

I was thinking the same thing. That was classic

Post by **werldhed** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:08 pm

Heh.
It had something to do with the thunderbirds or thundercats or something.

Somebody's mother or some other relative died.

Post by **shaft** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:12 pm

It was someones dad. Someone said somthing about digging him up. LOL INTERNET and geoff I think. geoff was going through his "what?" reply phase.

Post by **tnf** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:54 am

I just got done with a demonstration involving uranium today. Have a little jar of it at work, along with some rocks that have uranium ore...the yellow is definitely a defining characteristic.

Post by **tnf** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:54 am

I keep it in my pocket...i want to mutate my sperm.

Post by **Canis** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:56 am

No kiddies for you, eh?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:44 am

No normal ones anyway.

Post by **Canis** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:52 am

Normal? We're talking about tnf here...

Post by **tnf** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:33 am

Canis wrote:No kiddies for you, eh?

I want some super sperm.

Actually, I got enough radiation exposure back in my days of research with the old radioactive DNA.

Post by **Foo** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:02 am

SUPER SPERM

This thread is full of old references.

Post by **Canis** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:18 am

tnf wrote:
Canis wrote:No kiddies for you, eh?
I want some super sperm.

Actually, I got enough radiation exposure back in my days of research with the old radioactive DNA.

Super sperm, eh? You mean you want to turn yourself into a pea shooter?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:24 am

shaft wrote: It was someones dad. Someone said somthing about digging him up. LOL INTERNET and geoff I think. geoff was going through his "what?" reply phase.

It may have been about SOAPgoth's dad getting shanked to death, though I could be wrong.