• gaycomputeruser [she/her]
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    16 days ago

    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.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      16 days ago

      I drink my wine in lead cups to give it that sweet roman taste

      • gaycomputeruser [she/her]
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        16 days ago

        Mmm I love drinking vinegar out of my lead crystal cup. So sweet and yummy. (I have no idea how fast this reaction occurs)

    • troybot [he/him]@midwest.social
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      16 days ago

      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.

      • gaycomputeruser [she/her]
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        16 days ago

        Storing radioactive waste by mixing it into glass is nearly traditional for good reason.