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Is this glass dangerous then?
by Brendinooo 5y ago
Is this glass dangerous then?
- datameta 5y ago> ... can register above background radiation on a sufficiently sensitive Geiger counter, although most pieces of uranium glass are considered to be harmless and only negligibly radioactive.
- Brendinooo 5y agoMissed that. Thanks.
- kloch 5y agoThe food you eat every day is much more dangerous than Uranium glass, unless you also eat Uranium glass.
- CapitalistCartr 5y agoUranium, like lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, is a heavy metal and toxic, separate from any radiation, although the alpha particles from U-238 are only dangerous if ingested or inhaled, anyway.