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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Uranium mining by country - Wikipedia

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   The Czech Republic is the birthplace of industrial-scale uranium mining. Uranium mining at Jáchymov (at that time named Joachimsthal and belonging to Austria-Hungary) started in the 1890s on an industrial scale, after the silver and cobalt production of the deposit declined. Uranium was first utilised to produce mainly yellow colours for glass ...

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. 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.

7. Nižbor glassworks - Wikipedia

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   Cutting glass on a rotary wheel. Rückl Crystal (also known as Nižbor glassworks) is a Bohemian glass factory in the village of Nižbor, about 7 km west from the city of Beroun, Czech Republic. The glass factory produces 24% lead crystal. The major part of its production is focused on export, but some production is for the market in the Czech ...