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Is this... safe? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Is that uranium glass?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You guessed it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hopefully there's still enough rads to keep stuff like salmonella out of the food

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Ironically, it's not the radiation that makes uranium dangerous here. Uranium is a heavy metal, and toxic in its own right. Enough can transfer to the food to give heavy metal poisoning, akin to eating off of plates with lead paint.

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