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I think that type of glazing was once somewhat popular for dinnerware. Gladly that got solved by the colors becoming quite unpopular after the 70s. (I'm aware
by mhd 4y ago
I think that type of glazing was once somewhat popular for dinnerware. Gladly that got solved by the colors becoming quite unpopular after the 70s.
(I'm aware that I'm writing this on "the orange site"…)
- Bedon292 4y agoYes, Fiestaware. Where the most popular color was red, which originally used natural uranium oxide as the pigment in the glaze. It was actually WWII that saw the US government confiscate their stock of uranium in 1943. They used depleted uranium from 1959 to 1973 when the finally discontinued the red color. And an estimated 2 million pieces sold between 1959 and 1969. [1] And people collect them. I remember being a kid and looking at my grandmother's display of plates and being told they were radioactive. But only a little. You can also still find them on eBay easy enough. [1] https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/ceramics/fiestaware.html https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consum...
- cafard 4y agoA family I knew in Montgomery County, Maryland, dumped the pepper out of its Fiestaware shaker and took it to a fire station's test-your-stuff day. My recollection is that the pepper was not hazardous.
- dgfitz 4y ago[flagged]
- cafard 4y agoI don't know why. Perhaps because I never heard of hazardous substance days at firehouses elsewhere. Perhaps because it sounds less as if I made up the story.
- renewiltord 4y ago[flagged]
- ender341341 4y agoNot necessarily a day, but I know that it's not uncommon for fire departments to do similar things for testing items for lead.
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- baking 4y agoIs test-your-stuff day common where you are from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_countie...
- pastor_bob 4y agoVaseline Glass[0] is pretty common to find in antique stores if you want your own uraniumware [0]https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/glass/vaseline-uranium-glass.html https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consum...
- superzamp 4y agochuckles glancing at my living room and seeing second-hand 70s orange antiques, glasses and dinnerware everywhere
- yanellena 4y agoA lot of glassware had uranium and other radioactive materials in too. Here's a good subreddit for it in the wild: https://www.reddit.com/r/uraniumglass/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uraniumglass/