Uranium glass
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uranium-glass-179-8658614
title:
Uranium glass
text:
Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for colouration. The proportion usually varies from trace levels to about 2% uranium by weight, although some 20th-century pieces were made with up to 25% uranium. First identified in 1789 by German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, uranium was soon being added to decorative glass for its fluorescent effect. James Powell's Whitefriars Glass company in London, England, was one of the
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description:
Glass colored with uranium oxide
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass
date created:
2004-09-14T08:36:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T22:31:35Z
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