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Is this... safe?
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I've heard that you want to not use acidic food on some, since it will dissolve some of the plate into the food.
That's only really for glassware with a uranium glaze. The uranium inside the glass is stable and sealed away enough that mild food acids won't affect it. The biggest concerns are for chips or cracks in the glass, the uranium can still leech into food that way.
The real problem - don't look at the UV light shining on this! You are much more likely to get eye damage from the light than you are to experience any illness from the radiation.
Oh wow, thanks for the info
I watched a video on how to make uranium glass because I have a three-shelf collection of it myself and I was curious and they use a very small amount of uranium powder per piece of glass.
I would never suggest that you eat uranium in any quantity, but the likelihood a couple of atoms of uranium leaching into the entire meal split between the whole family is insanely small, and the amount of damage a single atom of uranium can do is also insanely small.
That being said, I like them for their decorative purposes and not for use as glassware, so take that with a dose of uranium salt.
My husband is a collector. If only our collection was limited to three shelves, haha.
But yeah, we don't use ours too eat off of either, although we could. I'll take the grain of salt, because ironically, we have a set of uranium glass salt shakers that are the only pieces we use semi-frequently.