uranium glass

"They live on great platforms of uranium glass, domed in.

Uranium glass is considered to be harmless and only marginally more active than background radiation.

Birmingham glassworks are among the early mass-producers of uranium glass.

Several other common subtypes of uranium glass have their own nicknames:

Urania has also been used in formulations of enamel, uranium glass, and porcelain.

Specialized collectors still define "vaseline glass" as transparent or semitransparent uranium glass in this specific color.

Uranium is used as a colorant in uranium glass, producing orange-red to lemon yellow hues.

Otherwise, modern uranium glass is now mainly limited to small objects like beads or marbles as scientific or decorative novelties.

Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting.

Riihimäki Glass produced uranium glass designer pieces after World War II.

"Vaseline glass" is now frequently used as a synonym for any uranium glass, especially in the United States, but this usage is not universal.

Uranium glass is used as one of several intermediate glasses in what is known to scientific glass blowers as a 'graded seal'.

By the 1840s, many other European glassworks began to produce uranium glass items and developed new varieties of uranium glass.

The first study of the green luminescence of uranium glass, by Brewster in 1849, began extensive studies of the spectroscopy of the uranyl ion.

The Baccarat glassworks in France created an opaque green uranium glass which they named chrysoprase from its similarity to that green form of chalcedony.

Uranium glass is typically not radioactive enough to be dangerous, but if ground into a powder, such as by polishing with sandpaper, and inhaled, it can be carcinogenic.

Before the discovery of radioactivity, uranium was primarily used in small amounts for yellow glass and pottery glazes, such as uranium glass and in Fiestaware.

At the end of the 19th century, glassmakers discovered that uranium glass with certain mineral additions could be tempered at high temperatures, inducing varying degrees of microcrystallization.

Oxides and uranates of uranium(VI) have been used in the past as yellow ceramic glazes as in Fiesta and to make yellow-green uranium glass.

According to Alexander Strelkov, junior architect on this project, Dushkin originally settled for uranium glass, as he once saw in London, and picked Vera Mukhina to shape the glass.

US production of uranium glasses ceased in the middle years of World War II because of the US government's confiscation of uranium supplies, and did not resume until 1958.

Popular permanent exhibits in the museum galleries include "Contemporary Paperweights: The Schimmelpfeng Collection" and "Atomic Green Vaseline: Uranium Glass in Everyday Life."

Uranium glass was once made into tableware and household items, but fell out of widespread use when the availability of uranium to most industries was sharply curtailed during the Cold War in the 1940s to 1990s.

The normal colour of uranium glass ranges from yellow to green depending on the oxidation state and concentration of the metal ions, although this may be altered by the addition of other elements as glass colorants.

He is running to retrieve a lump of wolframite ("a good, dense, black African mineral"), a small tablet of gold, a bar of tungsten, a snippet of gallium, a goblet of uranium glass.