• @Delphia
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    When its lights in my pc at 40 I’m juvenile but when its your dinnerwear its kooky and fun…

  • @Dagamant
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    72 hours ago

    My wife collects uranium glass. It’s mostly safe. Most uranium glass has very little uranium in it and that is mostly sealed away within the glass. However, like lead crystal glass, very very very tiny amounts can leach out over time and end up in food or drink. The amount that can leach out like this is not going to cause any problems for you. Still, wash before and after use to further minimize contamination and don’t used chipped or scratched glass that could shed larger particles.

    I wouldn’t use them as my every day plates but for special occasions it’s a fun conversation starter.

    • @pyre
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      452 minutes ago

      “what the fuck is this”

      “it’s uranium”

      sounds like a fun conversation indeed

  • @Lost_My_Mind
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    2510 hours ago

    Eggs at thanksgiving??? No. It’s not safe. It’s going to cause stinky farts in the house, at max capacity! 200 people, all egg farting in one house???

    Pretty sure you need gas masks.

  • @TropicalDingdong
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    6813 hours ago

    Yeah its safe. Your aunties nasty ass jello salad with banana’s in it is giving you far more radiation exposure than those plates, because you put it inside you.

    • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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      2911 hours ago

      You could put one of those candle holders inside you if you’re so inclined.

    • @[email protected]
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      613 hours ago

      Is there something specific about bananas or is it just the go to stand in for saying that even fruit entire radiation?

      • @NegativeInf
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        3013 hours ago

        The potassium taken up by banana plants during growth has radioactive isotopes which are concentrated in the fruiting bodies.

          • @IzzyScissor
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            310 hours ago

            Ironically though, your body doesn’t really store excess potassium. When you eat a banana, you’re only replacing a banana’s worth of potassium within your body, so it ends up being largely net 0 in terms of a radiation dose, even though it’s radioactive.

            • @angrystego
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              But you could exchange non-radioactive isotopes for the radioactive ones bananas are rich in, right?

      • @TropicalDingdong
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        610 hours ago

        Most of the respondents to your comment focused on the bananas themselves as being the issue, but they are actually missing the point somewhat. Bananas do have more potassium and are more radioactive than other fruit, but actually, its the “putting them inside you” which is the much larger issue. The inverse square law applies to all forms of radiation and you’ve effectively reduced that to 0 by ingesting the thing which is radioactive. So instead of absorbing a small fraction of the total radiation emitted by the thing over time, you are exposed to ALL of the radiation emitted by the thing over time. Not to mention any radiation given off the plates is not even going to be able to penetrate your skin or clothes; whereas the banana is already inside you.

      • @[email protected]
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        Bananas genuinely are more radioactive than most other foods due to their high potassium content and the relatively high frequency of radioactive isotopes of potassium.

  • Blue
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    5913 hours ago

    Babe, put out the fine Xbox tableware

    • @athairmor
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      912 hours ago

      Personally, I think I would save these for Halloween or a kid’s birthday party. They’re cool and I kinda want some but I also feel like they’re not conducive to keeping the food down.

    • Atelopus-zeteki
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      3213 hours ago

      From the paper: "The maximum quantity of uranium leached from the uranium-bearing glasses was about 30 micrograms L-1, while that from the ceramic-glazed items was about 300,000 micrograms L-1. "

      Thanks for posting this!!

      • @[email protected]
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        2512 hours ago

        Also, the green glow isn’t from radioactive decay, it’s the uranium fluorescing under the UV light stationed just out of frame.

        • ThoGot
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          511 hours ago

          Yeah the light is probably more harmful than the glassware lol

          • @[email protected]
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            411 hours ago

            Most of the produce you buy in grocery stores have been irradiated with UV to kill harmful bacteria, and it does not have any harmful effects. I suppose if they leave the UV light on and eat dinner under it for an extended period of time then they might get a sunburn.

            • ThoGot
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              I suppose if they leave the UV light on and eat dinner under it for an extended period of time then they might get a sunburn.

              Yeah that’s what I meant

            • bizarroland
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              210 hours ago

              I wonder if it truly doesn’t have any harmful effects?

              I’ve heard a lot of studies about how America’s *gut Flora has changed in the last 50 years. How much of that is from having fewer microbiota ingested from natural food?

              I mean, it’s not like UV only kills the bad stuff right?

              • ThoGot
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                As far as I know changes in the microbiota are mostly due to the lack of dietary fiber and the consumption of highly processed foods

                • @angrystego
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                  11 hour ago

                  Probably combined with high use of antibiotics.

              • kakler bitmap
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                America’s got Flora

                It took me way too long to figure out that you meant America’s gut flora. America’s Got Flora sounds like some weird reality TV show.

  • @Sterile_Technique
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    If you don’t reach critical mass, did you even feast?

  • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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    Looks like a black light overhead causing everything fluorescent to glow.

    Edit: Not even just looks like. That’s exactly what it is.

    • @Psythik
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      2411 hours ago

      Well yeah; to see the glowing effect of Uranium glass, you need to put it under a UV light.

  • @RustyNova
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    1813 hours ago

    “Oh hey! Neat plates!”

    See the group name

  • @digital_man
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    713 hours ago

    “The cancer is coming from INSIDE the building”

    • @Chocrates
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      713 hours ago

      I’ve heard that you want to not use acidic food on some, since it will dissolve some of the plate into the food.

      • @IzzyScissor
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        1012 hours ago

        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.

        • @Chocrates
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          410 hours ago

          Oh wow, thanks for the info

        • bizarroland
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          310 hours ago

          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.

          • @IzzyScissor
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            310 hours ago

            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.