Protest and Survive: Uranium glass biscuit barrel, circa 1880-1920. Label stuck to bottom: 'Mrs Geo Brown, Sth Riv. 77 [or ??]' To create the distinctive green colour uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, was added to a glass mix before melting. Ref RI.W2001.469 Te Hikoi Museum

Uranium glass biscuit barrel, circa 1880-1920. Label stuck to bottom: 'Mrs Geo Brown, Sth Riv. 77 [or ??]' To create the distinctive green colour uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, was added to a glass mix before melting. Ref RI.W2001.469 Te Hikoi Museum

Contains biscuits that make you glow in the dark. (Obviously not, but its appearance does prompt that thought.)

Ooh, I've got a bit of free time this coming week (school's out!) I bet I could make biscuits that look a bit 'radioactive'...

Keeps cookies fresh for millennia!

So, is that good that it had uranium in it, or did it give everyone in the parlor cancer?

Uranium glass isn't nearly as dangerous as it sounds. It's glowing green not from radiation but fluorescence under a black light.

Thanks. Less dangerous than the radium watch dials?

Much so. According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, there is no recognized danger to handling or using uranium glass, though a lot of hobbyists will still recommend not eating off of it or storing food in it, just in case.

Thanks.

The radium watch dials were a problem because the women who were working in the factories were ingesting radium paint. I wouldn't recommend eating uranium glass, either! (But it's safe to have and admire.)

Thanks.

I want it

I want

Summoning @funranium.bsky.social

Pretty.

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