Paul-
Google for Vaseline glass. Apparently it's not too bad... (but then, how bad is too bad.)
Laura

At 03:03 PM 2/24/2005, you wrote:
OK, new to this conversation.  Are you telling me that the enormous (and hideous) vaseline glass collection my parents have accumulated over the last 40 years is radioactive?  How radioactive?
 
Paul
 
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Add to the list that lovely greenish 'Vaseline glass', which contains uranium.
Laura

Laura H. Nightengale
Head of Collections
Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
The University of Texas at Austin
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