SC - Period Pottery - WARNING

[Peters, Rise J.]

In a message dated 98-03-29 20:33:56 EST, Diana wrote:

<<
>> <snip>
>> Hello again!  Must have been out in this gorgeous sunshine too long.
What
>> I meant to say was that I've seen yellow/green *glass* dishes made in
part
>> from radioactive materials.  They're on display in those 2 museums.

>> Cindy/Sincgiefu
>> renfrow at skylands.net
  >>
>     (Grin) Having spent the majority of the day outside, first at fighter
>practice, then gardening, I can certainly sympathise! But my ponders still
>hold--whether someone was *trying* for glowing dishes, and how they
effected
>the health of the makers/users..............

My guess would be they were just trying for a bright clear yellow.   I have
a chart that shows the different shades of yellow and red glass that have
been made over the last several hundred years.  The earlier shades of yellow
were all a little dull -- starting out with a fairly golden-yellow and then
moving to a slightly brighter shade.  Yellow glass made with uranium is a
nice bright clear shade.  (It approaches what we'd now call a  neon yellow.)
Uranium was just another mineral in the pre-atomic age.  And the danger may
not have been apparent -- remember, the ladies who used to paint the radium
on glow-in-the-dark watch dials pointed their brushes with their tongues at
first.

=Caitlin Cheannlaidir

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