Radioactive Pottery and Glassware (2010)
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- Radioactive pottery and glassware are common in antique malls, often affordable and functional.
- Uranium is used as a colorant in these items, making them incidentally radioactive.
- Red uranium-glazed pottery, like Fiestaware, was produced from 1936-1943 and again from 1959-1972.
- Yellow uranium-glazed items are less radioactive and more stylistically diverse.
- Green uranium glass, including vaseline and jadeite, fluoresces under UV light and was popular during the Great Depression.
- Quack crockery like Revigators were health products lined with radioactive materials, now collectible but unsafe.
- Handmade radioactive ceramics are rare compared to mass-produced items like Fiestaware.