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

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   This is when uranium glass reached the height of its popularity in the United States between 1958 and 1978, with more than 4 million pieces of decorative uranium produced, according to Oak Ridge ...

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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   Like many uranium glass collectors, they are especially drawn to pearline, which was created by several companies, mostly in Britain, from the end of the 19th century into the 20th.

5. Moser (glass company) - Wikipedia

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   Moser a.s. is a luxury glass manufacturer based in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic (previously Ludwig Moser & Sons in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary).The company is known for manufacturing stemware, decorative glassware (such as vases, ashtray, candlestick), glass gifts and various art engravings.

6. Riedel (glass manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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   Instead of discounting prices, he offered only high-quality products, which customers appreciated. According to Walter Spiegl, [5] an author who specialized in the topic of glass of the 19th century, Josef Riedel was the first to invent uranium glass. Josef Riedel named this glass type "Annagelb" and "Annagrün" after his wife Anna he married ...

7. Jáchymov - Wikipedia

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   Jáchymov (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaːxɪmof]; German: Sankt Joachimsthal or Joachimsthal) is a spa town in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,400 inhabitants. Jáchymov has a long mining tradition, thanks to which it used to be the second most populous town in the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1534 ...