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Radioactive Glass.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:23 pm
by Turbine
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!
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:48 pm
by Guest
Wow. Just wow.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:51 pm
by Foo
Heh. Looks like that space lego plastic.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:52 pm
by Turbine
Foo wrote:Heh. Looks like that space lego plastic.
Holly smokes, it does!
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:18 pm
by MKJ
Foo wrote:Heh. Looks like that space lego plastic.
w3rd
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:24 pm
by Doombrain
LOL, the company i work for made this clock
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:34 pm
by shaft
You own a company?
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:37 pm
by Doombrain
shaft wrote:You own a company?
what?
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:38 pm
by shaft
Thats what I thought.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:10 pm
by Doombrain
lol
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:19 pm
by menkent
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:
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:00 pm
by Nightshade
shaft wrote:Thats what I thought.
LOL! What was the thread where this pic was originally used? Didn't somebody die or something?
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:07 pm
by eepberries
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
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:08 pm
by werldhed
Heh.
It had something to do with the thunderbirds or thundercats or something.
Somebody's mother or some other relative died.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:12 pm
by shaft
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.
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:54 am
by tnf
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.
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:54 am
by tnf
I keep it in my pocket...i want to mutate my sperm.
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:56 am
by Canis
No kiddies for you, eh?
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:44 am
by Guest
No normal ones anyway.
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:52 am
by Canis
Normal? We're talking about tnf here...
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:33 am
by tnf
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.
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:02 am
by Foo
SUPER SPERM
This thread is full of old references.
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:18 am
by Canis
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?
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:24 am
by Massive Quasars
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.