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  2. The Weird and Wonderful World of Radioactive Glassware ... - AOL

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    According to Michigan State University, the use of uranium was deregulated in 1958, and production of uranium glass picked up again—except this time, only depleted uranium was used.

  3. Uranium glass - Wikipedia

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    Uranium glass used as lead-in seals in a vacuum capacitor Uranium glassware glowing under ultraviolet light. Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for colouration. The proportion usually varies from trace levels to about 2% uranium by weight, although some 20th-century ...

  4. People are collecting glassware that contains uranium

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    Uranium glass occupies a little-known niche in the collectibles world, whose members appreciate its soft color and distinctive glow, which comes from the uranium added as the glass was created.

  5. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert cloud chamber, assembled An alternative view of kit contents. The lab contained a cloud chamber allowing the viewer to watch alpha particles traveling at 12,000 miles per second (19,000,000 m/s), a spinthariscope showing the results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen, and an electroscope measuring the radioactivity of different substances in the set.

  6. Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company - Wikipedia

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    The Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company was the largest manufacturer of glass lamps in the United States during the early 1890s. It began operations in Fostoria, Ohio , on May 17, 1890. The plant was run by Nicholas Kopp Jr., a former chemist at Hobbs, Brockunier and Company in West Virginia .

  7. Lampshade - Wikipedia

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    Two modern electric lamps with lampshades. A lampshade is a fixture that envelops the light bulb on a lamp to redirect the light it emits. The shade is often affixed onto a light fixture to reduce the intensity of the light to observers, shield the light from a harsh environment, or for decoration by altering the color or creating shadows.

  8. Carnival glass - Wikipedia

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    Carnival glass was made in a wide array of colours, shades, colour combinations and variants. More than fifty have been formally classified. These classifications do not go by the surface colours showing, which can be even more varied, but by the 'base' colours of the glass before application of the iridizing mineral salts.

  9. Gas-discharge lamp - Wikipedia

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    Initially the lamp generated white light by using a Geissler tube filled with carbon dioxide. However, the carbon dioxide tended to break down. Hence in later lamps, the Geissler tube was filled with nitrogen (which generated red light), and the clear glass was replaced with uranium glass (which fluoresced with a green light). [14]

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