Mysterious Glowing Things Here we have some common household items that take on a new look under Ultraviolet illumination

A Depression-era cake dish, incandescent lighting The same cake dish under UV A toothpick holder and salt dip, incandescent lighting the same two items under UV a condiment dish, incandescent lighting IMG_0187 Condiment dish under UV light All these eerie green glassware items are made from "Vaseline glass", that's normal glass that's had 1-2% Uranium Dioxide added to them Yes, *URANIUM*! Yes, all these glassware items are faintly radioactive But no more than normal background radiation or what you'd get from granite rocks Uranium is an Alpha particle emitter a very *weak* Alpha emitter a calcite stone another calcite stone calcite stone lit by a UV LED another lit by UV LED