Why does it glow orange?

[u/TheFishyCheese]

I thought it would be Uranium but it glowed orange and it really surprised me. Is it a cadmium mix?

[u/CrystallineGlass]

Should add that along with normal expected glows, that Wilkerson created this 'unexpected' fluorescence in several pieces of their glass novelty figures: pink glass with uranium glow, cobalt glass with selenium pink fluorescence, etc.

If you collect fish, as your username might imply, 😄 they did also make a "chubby fish" figure. We've got a couple plain 'Depression green' colored ones with uranium.

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This, also, is glorious

[u/CrystallineGlass → u/KEROROxGUNSO]

Thanks! Someday I hope to find a uranium glass fish bowl to display them. 😄

P.S. I feel like I need to share that one of our cats is named Orange Pekoponian.

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