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Berlin Rosenthaler Platz U-Bahn is decorated with radioactive glazed tiles
- taubek 4y agoI know that a lot of materials have background radiation. Could this also be the case? That the tiles were made from some clay/stones that are naturally radioactive? EDIT: fixed typo
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tile "Uranium tiles have been used in the ceramics industry for many centuries, as uranium oxide makes an excellent ceramic glaze, and is reasonably abundant Vibrant colors of orange, ... during that period (circa 1920–1940) used bathroom or kitchen tiles that had been glazed with uranium. These can now be detected by a Geiger counter" Apparently not dangerous, if you don't lick it, or grind it up and inhale dust, etc.
- taubek 4y agoOh, and I just came across this https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/ceramics/fiestaware.html https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consum...
- taubek 4y agoAs a kid I was listening stories about cobalt blue and that dishes wit that color were radioactive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_blue
- taubek 4y agoDang, can you please mark this thread as duplicate? I see that newer post with same topic is No1 on HN so it would make sense to merge this post into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34691489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34691489.
- steponlego 4y agoIs this code for something? Seeing it on many sites. Red striped shirts.
- SomeBoolshit 4y agoWhat are you referring to?