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I also recently got some curious glass. Five wine glasses, three fluoresce in orange, one in green (so I suspect uranium) and one doesn't fluoresce and is just blue. I was gonna post about it but wasn't happy with the photos.
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Did you take any closeups? I would like a closer look at the one that’s glowing in two colors.

 

Going back to do the collection properly :)

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A few years ago we had some glass fluorescence posted if you want to search around.

 

 

It is always fascinating to see this kind of fluorescence. I like this group photo of all the glass together because it really makes the point about the fluor. Thank you for contributing this interesting photo.

 

Question: Was the uranium in this glass harmful in any way to the owner/user of the glassware? (I should probably go google that up!)

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I measured some of my uranium glass with a geiger counter and it was not very much above background radiation. My thoriated old Canon 35/2.0 was much worse.
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