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My chem lab in college had some Fiestaware, which was similar in that it had uranium glazed ceramic. They stopped making it in the 1970s but you can still find
by bduerst 7y ago
My chem lab in college had some Fiestaware, which was similar in that it had uranium glazed ceramic.
They stopped making it in the 1970s but you can still find it floating around somewhere online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)
- Bootwizard 7y agoOh god I used to have some of these!! I inherited them from my grandmother. Should I be worried about having used them for years?
- Gibbon1 7y agoI think Uranium has low bio-availability a high clearance rate and not particularly toxic. So likely not. Uranium is also everywhere in ppm quantities.
- jcranmer 7y agoIf you used that dinnerware every day, you've received about as much radiation from the dinnerware as you have from the potassium in your body (about 400µSv/year). You'd need about 100,000 µSv/year to get heightened cancer risks.
- Tyr42 7y agoUpthread people are saying is not recommended. Not because of the radiation when eating off it, but if there's any chips or anything you should end up with uranium inside of you, which is significantly worse. But as long as it's intact, no big deal. (I guess, I'm not an expert, why are you listening to me?)