https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactivity-antiques
Do not use ceramics like antique orange-red Fiestaware or Vaseline glass to hold food or drink. They can chip, and you can ingest particles of uranium with your food or drink.
Apparently the glass is pretty safe because it's hard to chip or break glass just by eating off it. It's the ceramic that's dangerous because the glaze can flake off much more easily.
From what I've read, it's only dangerous if you ingest it, food that's just been sitting on it is fine, but if a chip or shard of it get in you it can fuck you up.
So yeah best not to eat off of. It's apparently fine as a decorative piece tho, being near it won't give you cancer.
From what I've read, it's not good to eat chips or shards of any glass.
Nah they cancel out. The radiation, physical shards of glass, the microplastics, cholesterol and bird flu in the food itself are all trying to fit through a door to get me at the same time but they can't get through.
The doctors call it Three Stooges syndrome.
Alpha radiation (the type emitted by super heavy nuclei like uranium, basically just helium nuclei being emitted) has very low penetration depth compared to beta radiation (electrons, positrons, some accompanying photons) because the emitted particle is absorbed by the upper epidermic layers due to the sheer size of the emitted particle. Those layers of skin are shed on a regular basis anyway, so most corruptions end up being entirely irrelevant. However, alpha radiation tends to be highly energised and thus will deal substantial damage to any tissue that cannot simply be discarded, thus is highly dangerous when ingested or inhaled.
Although uranium glass isn't PARTICULARLY radioactive, it is also a toxic heavy metal regardless
Not that you want any more radioactive decay than usual going on in your bones lol
This is like a consumer identity based around drinking from those leaded Garfield glasses, wild
Those in uranium glass houses shouldn't throw depleted uranium stones
Love having a black light over the kitchen table like I'm having Thanksgiving at a rave.
"I eated the purple ham(?)..."
"How is it, Ralph? Good?"
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I've always wanted some radium glass. I'm envious, won't lie. I'd totally sit at that table and take a nibble, if just for the story.
If I remembering correctly the only actually bad thing they are doing is the wine. Otherwise uranium glass isn't all that dangerous.
I don't remember this that well but I remember something about soaking the glass in vinegar removing most of the danger.
Mmm I love drinking vinegar out of my lead crystal cup. So sweet and yummy. (I have no idea how fast this reaction occurs)
If anything is scraped or chipped by the metal utensils you could potentially ingest flakes of glass. Even that isn't too bad because it's a very minimal amount of uranium. I'd be more worried about damaging the items because some of those are rare and valuable.
Only dangerous use of uranium glass would be in a piece of jewelry pressed against your skin, but even that would take many years before any slight increased chance of cancer.
Storing radioactive waste by mixing it into glass is nearly traditional for good reason.
