THE HORRIFYING STORY OF CARROTS AND GEIGER COUNTERS!

Tiny little Uranium Glass bowl, stunning isn’t it?

This is the same bowl but in daylight, surprising eh!

Very deceiving some things, the first picture was taken under a UV or Black Light, which shows the uranium that they mixed into the molten glass.  And well over a hundred years old, Victorian right down to its frilly feet.

The story goes that experimenting to find a good green colour the glass makers chanced upon this lovely yellow and the Victorians loved it and bear in mind that they didn’t have UV lights they bought it for its cheery colour.

It was/is called Pearline and people collect it now for its uranium glow and have cabinets made with lighting so that they can sit and admire the green glow.

We are often asked if it will make a geiger counter click, and yes it will but really only as much as most if not all of every day things, one of the examples used is a carrot, or even ourselves, almost everything does!

A strange and horrifying story goes like this – A woman had a  huge collection of glass collected over a lifetime, hundreds of pieces.  One day she learnt about Uranium in glass and after a few days she sent a message to her fellow glass collectors – We, my husband and I have cleared out all of the Dangerous Uranium glass – we took a dustbin around and smashed every piece so that it could no longer be a danger to us or our family!

The outcry was such that the site that she messaged crashed and it took several days for things to calm back down to normal.  She must have destroyed a fortunes worth of antique glass all because of ignorance!

If there was that much uranium in glass maybe Governments should be powering space ships with it, and they aren’t.

This proves to me that a ‘little knowledge can be a dangerous thing’ and that not everything is maybe as it first seems.

‘Thinking’ may be the way forward!