Paul:
 
Check out this excellent page:
 
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/vaseline.htm
 

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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul McCoy
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:03 PM
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Subject: Re: Radioactive materials

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
1 University Station R7500
Austin, TX 78712-0714
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