A friend of my family is a medical nuclear physicist and serves company
dinners on the Orange Radioactive Fiestaware.  His particular pieces have
been checked with a geiger counter and don't even leave spots on film or
anything like that.
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  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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      -------------- Original message --------------

      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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