To be fair smoking a cigarette will put more radioactive contamination in you than these plates.
That’s why smoking is generally discouraged.
Yeah, I quit smoking and switched to snorting uranium glass powder instead
Try crushing it and soaking it in clear liquor then absorbing it in a tampon and boofing it that way.
People should only smoke uranium glass.
Looks like it’s being lit with a black light
I don’t know if this is real, but real uranium glass just glows (although it is not this brightly unless the light is fairly low). I have a tiny bit on a keychain somewhere.
I used to keep it in my pocket as my normal keychain and joke that it would stop me from having kids.
It apparently didn’t.
Not quite,
Radioactive substances don’t actually glow visibly themselves…
Uranium glass fluoresces under UV, and tritium vials and radium paint contain phosphers that convert radiation to visible light.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence
Well all I know is I could see my keychain glow in the dark and it claimed to be uranium.
I guess whatever is in it isn’t uranium then. 🤷
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Technically yes, as long as none of it is chipped, or gets chipped during use.
“Oh hey! Neat plates!”
See the group name
Is that uranium glass?
You guessed it.
Hopefully there’s still enough rads to keep stuff like salmonella out of the food
Ironically, it’s not the radiation that makes uranium dangerous here. Uranium is a heavy metal, and toxic in its own right. Enough can transfer to the food to give heavy metal poisoning, akin to eating off of plates with lead paint.
Whoa, that’s one unexpected silver lining.
Plates with dividers from grown ass people is the worst here
Me after dinner
Well you don’t need to turn on the bathroom light when you get up at night to go for a piss
It’s bringing love! Don’t get it get away!
Matchy matchy
Yeah the radiation is super lower. Aslong as you don’t spend literally months holding it to your body it’s fine. The danger is if they break getting dust in your body. Then you have a constant source trapped in your body which isn’t ideal.
I’ve heard that you want to not use acidic food on some, since it will dissolve some of the plate into the food.
That’s only really for glassware with a uranium glaze. The uranium inside the glass is stable and sealed away enough that mild food acids won’t affect it. The biggest concerns are for chips or cracks in the glass, the uranium can still leech into food that way.
The real problem - don’t look at the UV light shining on this! You are much more likely to get eye damage from the light than you are to experience any illness from the radiation.
Oh wow, thanks for the info
I watched a video on how to make uranium glass because I have a three-shelf collection of it myself and I was curious and they use a very small amount of uranium powder per piece of glass.
I would never suggest that you eat uranium in any quantity, but the likelihood a couple of atoms of uranium leaching into the entire meal split between the whole family is insanely small, and the amount of damage a single atom of uranium can do is also insanely small.
That being said, I like them for their decorative purposes and not for use as glassware, so take that with a dose of uranium salt.
My husband is a collector. If only our collection was limited to three shelves, haha.
But yeah, we don’t use ours too eat off of either, although we could. I’ll take the grain of salt, because ironically, we have a set of uranium glass salt shakers that are the only pieces we use semi-frequently.
As long as it isn’t uranium glazed glass it is safe to eat from. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1322875/
From the paper: "The maximum quantity of uranium leached from the uranium-bearing glasses was about 30 micrograms L-1, while that from the ceramic-glazed items was about 300,000 micrograms L-1. "
Thanks for posting this!!
Also, the green glow isn’t from radioactive decay, it’s the uranium fluorescing under the UV light stationed just out of frame.
Yeah the light is probably more harmful than the glassware lol
Most of the produce you buy in grocery stores have been irradiated with UV to kill harmful bacteria, and it does not have any harmful effects. I suppose if they leave the UV light on and eat dinner under it for an extended period of time then they might get a sunburn.
I suppose if they leave the UV light on and eat dinner under it for an extended period of time then they might get a sunburn.
Yeah that’s what I meant
I wonder if it truly doesn’t have any harmful effects?
I’ve heard a lot of studies about how America’s got Flora has changed in the last 50 years. How much of that is from having fewer microbiota ingested from natural food?
I mean, it’s not like UV only kills the bad stuff right?
America’s got Flora
It took me way too long to figure out that you meant America’s gut flora. America’s Got Flora sounds like some weird reality TV show.
I’d watch that.
Thank you very much. I made the edit
As far as I know changes in the microbiota are mostly due to the lack of dietary fiber and the consumption of highly processed foods
Probably combined with high use of antibiotics.
And then look at how many lives it saved by providing food this way.
“The cancer is coming from INSIDE the building”
Yeah its safe. Your aunties nasty ass jello salad with banana’s in it is giving you far more radiation exposure than those plates, because you put it inside you.
Is there something specific about bananas or is it just the go to stand in for saying that even fruit entire radiation?
Bananas genuinely are more radioactive than most other foods due to their high potassium content and the relatively high frequency of radioactive isotopes of potassium.
It’s well-enough documented that there’s an informal unit of measurement for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Ugh… They actually use bananas for scale…
Ironically though, your body doesn’t really store excess potassium. When you eat a banana, you’re only replacing a banana’s worth of potassium within your body, so it ends up being largely net 0 in terms of a radiation dose, even though it’s radioactive.
But you could exchange non-radioactive isotopes for the radioactive ones bananas are rich in, right?
If you can find a source of non-radioactive potassium.
Most of the respondents to your comment focused on the bananas themselves as being the issue, but they are actually missing the point somewhat. Bananas do have more potassium and are more radioactive than other fruit, but actually, its the “putting them inside you” which is the much larger issue. The inverse square law applies to all forms of radiation and you’ve effectively reduced that to 0 by ingesting the thing which is radioactive. So instead of absorbing a small fraction of the total radiation emitted by the thing over time, you are exposed to ALL of the radiation emitted by the thing over time. Not to mention any radiation given off the plates is not even going to be able to penetrate your skin or clothes; whereas the banana is already inside you.
Are you saying not to eat bananas?
just don’t eat the uranium plates. or do. whatever. I’m just text on a page.
Maybe the little bit of radiation is why bananas are so damn tasty
The potassium taken up by banana plants during growth has radioactive isotopes which are concentrated in the fruiting bodies.
You could put one of those candle holders inside you if you’re so inclined.
paige no
Babe, put out the fine Xbox tableware
Personally, I think I would save these for Halloween or a kid’s birthday party. They’re cool and I kinda want some but I also feel like they’re not conducive to keeping the food down.
You can find it pretty easy in antique stores if you really want some.
Looks like a black light overhead causing everything fluorescent to glow.
Edit: Not even just looks like. That’s exactly what it is.
Well yeah; to see the glowing effect of Uranium glass, you need to put it under a UV light.
