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

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Me after dinner

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Matchy matchy

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's well-enough documented that there's an informal unit of measurement for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

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[–] WolfLink 13 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Babe, put out the fine Xbox tableware

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[–] transientpunk 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As long as it isn't uranium glazed glass it is safe to eat from. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1322875/

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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!!

[–] marine_mustang 35 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

"Oh hey! Neat plates!"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

"The cancer is coming from INSIDE the building"

[+] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Oh wow, thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days 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.

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