I vividly remember the first time I saw uranium glass. In daylight, the antique bowl looked ordinary—pale green, transparent glass with a decorative rim—but under a UV light, it transformed ...

Fair warning: if you’re going to try to mold uranium glass in a microwave kiln, you might want to not later use the oven for preparing food. Just a thought. The powdered uranium glass then goes ...

Uranium glass, often called “vaseline glass” due to its yellow-green glow under UV light, exists in its own ultra-unique realm of Depression glass. This type of glass contains small amounts of ...

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...

Popular items at thrift stores include vintage cast iron cookware, mid-century modern furniture and uranium glass. Thrift store employees use tools like Google Lens to help identify unfamiliar items.

Through the end of the nineteenth century and until the mid-twentieth century, uranium was widely used, for example, in the colouring of glass, giving it a greenish–yellow hue (from UO 2 ...