Why Did These Have Radioactive Material Added?
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2023
- In this video I talk about this table full of radioactive uranium glazed ceramics...why did these have radioactive material added to them?
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That's the nicest collection of Fiestaware I've ever seen. Most impressive.
Thanks. There were only a couple pieces there made by Fiestaware.
@@RadioactiveDrew is it the ones furthest from you
Great - self-warming crockery!
If it was that radioactive these would be extremely dangerous.
@@RadioactiveDrewExtremely dangerous isn't how I would describe it as much as low level radioactive waste, long term health effects, exposure, decay rate of 235, water and food contamination.. ect
I never said these were extremely dangerous. This also isn’t low level waste. Waste is a unwanted leftover product. This uranium has a purpose and was used as a pigment.
@@RadioactiveDrew How is it not low level radioactive waste? Even after the ceramic breaks down the rest of the uranium has to decay
It’s not waste because it’s not leftover from some other process. Waste is looking to be discarded.
Damn grandmas famous glowing potato salad really has a different meaning now
It sure does.
It's interesting to see how common these items still are in antique shops. There must have been a lot of them made.
This color was one of the most popular. For a lot of companies this color made up 30% of the items they sold. So this might be the reason why there is so much of it out there today.
Yes, and the more shops you visit - the more different brands you learn were making it. Almost every antique shop will have at least one vintage orange item. It's just everywhere in the USA. I think it's probably up around 20 different companies made it but Fiesta is the most well-known. A while back I got lucky and found an assortment of 8 different salt and pepper shakers priced cheaply.
@@RadioactiveDrew I carry my little pancake detector when we visit antique stores. The most interesting find has been a very old pottery shard , highly weathered, which I can see specks of carbon in the glaze. This is probably very old, and somehow they knew adding natural uranium resulted in the color. I have no way of dating it, but it is about 2000+ cpm.
@@desertengineer1 and also popular for quite a long time, uranium glass.
Hi Drew:
It’s actually not surprising that the ashtray may have been made by Coors (yes, the same company as the famous brewery) because in addition to brewing, they also have a long history in precision ceramics manufacturing. Coors ceramics division manufactures scientific and industrial ceramics and was located adjacent to the brewery. Not sure if that is all still true today.
Wow...thanks for that info. That's really cool. Next time I'm out that way I'll have to do some more exploring.
@@RadioactiveDrew - another pro tip from a former area resident: if you go to Coors to uh, inspect the facilities, ask at the front desk for the “short tour”. That’s the secret code from locals to skip the obligatory brewery tour and pass directly to the elevator to the tasting room. A great pit-stop on a warm day.
Also investigate the very famous “Morrison Formation” which was/is a rich uranium deposit visible in the cliffs directly behind and to the south of famous Cache Creek “It’s the water…”.
Lastly, don’t forget about investigating Rocky Flat, just a few minutes North. It was a huge plutonium lab and superfund site. There are still items conveniently forgotten and not often repeated about the plume of pollution that extended into surrounding communities to its north and a reservoir that can never go dry, lest the dried mud from the bottom ever become dust in the atmosphere. Lots of radioactive things to pursue.
I didn’t know!
They even made ceramic golf putters, I picked one up in a thrift store last year. Had "ZrO2" impressed on the bottom so I assume it was made specifically from zirconium dioxide.
Coors is world renouned for its porcalain. The heat shield plates on the shuttle were made by Coors.There beer is knoen mostly in the US. I lived Golden for a long time.
I’m imagining you just walking around goodwill with your counter 😂 ooo nice plates “beep beep beep beeeeeeep”
Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes.
there is a train station in Germany whose interior is completely tiled with uranium tiles ( could be a place you want to check out if you happen to visit in Germany )
A couple people have told me about this. Would love to go back to Germany one day...plenty of cool sites to visit.
Hi Drew, Just discovered your channel today with the Oppenheimer projection video. Love the videos about uranium used in ceramics and tiles. I just picked up a couple uranium glass pieces in the past month. Thanks for the great videos!
Thank you for posting Drew. I think my grandmother had several pieces of this dinner ware.
I wouldn't doubt that. This color was extremely popular back in the day.
Lovely collection! I have a few radioactive orange Fiestaware items and some Uranium glassware pieces, one piece belonged to my great Grandmother and it is a lot more radioactive than the other glass items plus it really glows nicely under the Ultraviolet lamp.
During the years these products were produced, there must have been some really nasty hot spots. A floor with spills of this glaze, containers of the uranium powder, a warehouse with many 1000s of these plates stacked, defective plates being turned into small pieces with uranium dust in the air etc. must have been areas existing with people working there with many hours of exposure.
As far as I know the guys mixing the glazes got the worst of it.
@@RadioactiveDrew It’s hard to prove who got the most exposure. The death from cancer is usually sufficiently long after exposure to prove the cause. Some might have got sick or died from the more immediate toxicity perhaps some got kidney failure.
What's much worse is the factories where radium military instruments were manufactured!
Your videos are always very interesting! Thanks for your work!
No problem...glad you like them.
I think I actually have one of these ceramics in my house. The orange color is spot on and I bought it from an antique shop. It's one of my favorites.
Uh oh i hope you havent been eating off of it too much.
I also suspect I have a few of those orange ceramics. I need to buy a Geiger counter for measurements.
Very nice collection, man! I'm somewhat jealous! I only have a handful of these, but they are pretty damn active for what they are and their size.
That’s usually why I like them…they look cool and they’re decently hot.
oh hey you watch him too Backyardscience2000 lol,@@RadioactiveDrew i have a decent collection of U-Glass most of mine is just the green glass, i do however have a small Glazed Fiestaware Plate, it gets about 3300CPM so not very hot at all, it is really fun finding that stuff in antique stores, i have a local one i go in every now and then where i got the fiestaware plate, i actually found a Radium Painted Vase before in there, only a couple small spots were painted with it but i still got i think it was like 250CPM off it, and ive seen some of that milky Uranium Glassware, sadly for those and the radium painted one i didn't have the money to get them and next time i went in there someone else had snagged them. i really wanna go out to the wooded lake access near me since there are large amounts of Rocks that have been Blasted out Due to the Dam being constructed, i want to see if i could find any Uraninite or possibly some Autunite would be awesome lol
Great work Drew! Another masterpiece!
Thanks.
Recently subscribed from Australia after finding your video from the trinity site which i visited in 2017. Great content & extremely interesting, keep up the quality work!
Thanks for the sub. I'm planning on going back out there next week to do another video about the site and some areas around there.
Very interesting video...and beautiful collection! Thanks for explaining everything in such detail.
No problem. Glad you liked it.
Keeps your food warm on those cold winter nights.
If only that were true.
Wow that is a fantastic collection!
When you say those are 1000 times above background it sounds really scary because if that was true it would be dangerous, but you can't compare beta radiation with the gamma radiation from background. The actual equivalent dose rate is only 1 or 2 times above background.
Another thing I noticed is that the gamma filter is showing 6 uSv/h from a distance when in reality the true gamma dose rate on contact with a plate of 50,000 cpm is about 0.25 uSv/h. That means that the filter is not blocking all of the beta radiation. You can test this by placing a non radioactive plate on top of a radioctive one to shield the beta radiation and then measuring the gamma dose rate with the filter on the B20.
Indeed, refined U without Ra daughters produces very little gamma radiation. The gamma filter definitely lets some beta through. If those plates were indeed 100uSv/h of gamma on contact, they would indeed be quite hot. Large chunks of rich U ore (with over 1kg of uranium) can register over 1mSv/h in gamma on contact. That's 10,000x background. Large rocks like that may be detected at 30ft away on a gamma scint!
been here since 650 subs, Keep it up bro you're making it!
Thanks for being with me along the way.
Very cool! I recently got a Geiger counter for antiquing, and a lemonade pitcher in this color has been the most radioactive thing I've found so far. They're so darn pretty.
Yeah, that orange / red can be some of the stronger items you can find in antique shops. There is something about that color as well, along with the style from that time period.
Enameled cooking ware was also often treated with such coatings. So the color makes it pretty easy to spot if you find such pots in your grandma's kitchen.
I've seen some of these before. Usually they aren't as radioactive as these orange colored pieces.
There is also a brown glaze and a light tan one made from U. The color depends primarily on the atmosphere in the kiln during glazing.
Great that you made the video, I always wondered why it was used in it 👍
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Keep up the great work love your videos!
Thanks.
Love your info Bro !
I’m glad.
Very interesting and informative video. Those are lovely ceramic wares.
Yeah those ceramics have a very cool look.
Very nice. I got a blacklight and now collect uranium glass because of you and want to get some fiesta ware but i'll have to get a geiger counter myself to pinpoint the ones that are actually hot.
Love your videos man.
I'm glad. Its always nice reading comments like that.
I find your videos very calming lol Good job
Thanks.
@@RadioactiveDrew your welcome 🤗
My best friend's mom while in high school in the 80's had this stuff. I took my Geiger counter over to the house and showed her what was going on. She immediately got rid of the stuff. It was fun to use it as a source for testing my meters at that time.
Some people overreact to radiation.
When my in-laws come over for dinner we use the “special orange China”
You are the "Everyday Astronaut" of all things radioactive. I love your work.
Thanks…glad you like the content.
I actually remember my mother using this stuff, and us kids eating/drinking from it when I was very young! I'm 73 now so I think I didn't suffer any ill effects.
You could totally use these items for a lifetime and have zero effects to your health. But you do take a chance using these...might not be a very big chance.
Very fascinating and interesting video ! Thank you Drew ! It's strange to think that anti-matter is "spewing" out of those bowls and plates ! 😲
I have been lucky enough to pick up two orange uranium Fiestaware items at auction here in Australia. These items are very rare here, and I have never seen one at an antique store.
So, if you have a lot of these items, think about sending them down here for a premium price.
I’ll keep that in mind. There are a lot of these items on eBay. Of course it’s kind of hard to tell if some of them are radioactive or not by photos alone.
I love your channel and am binge watching.
I’m glad you’re enjoying the content.
@@RadioactiveDrew you have the best factual channel by far. I see so many Inaccuracies and clickbait on the topic of radiation.
Great show. My daughter collects Fiestaware. I'm going to check them for radioactive material. Keep up the wonderful work.
Glad you enjoyed the video. There is a bunch of new Fiestaware that doesn’t use uranium. But there’s a lot out there that does.
Thanks for sharing.
No problem.
Thanks Drew‼️another great video 👍I have A plate from California kilns that’s 70.0000 counts per minute 🤗
Dang...that's a hot plate.
Oddly enough, uranium glazes were available to potters up into the early 80's
Very true. I think at that point most were using depleted uranium oxide.
Got to remember the radium girls. The radium health drinks, and all the cosmetics and skincare. 😳
Also, back in this time period, all green paint and dyes were made with Arsenic, and lead.
Great voice. Great display and well laid out video. Intersting topic. Totally engrossing and educational for a rad-geek like me or even someone who knows little on the topic. Thank you for your time making this video.
How much does the Geiger counter/dosimeter you are using cost? Ballpark.
The Radeye B20 that I use costs $2000 now…use to be $1400. It’s kind of a lot for a Geiger counter but it’s great for my use. Glad you liked the video.
The FallOut Boy channel. I think it's the only one dedicated to this topic I ever found yet. Very interesting btw
I’m glad you are finding these videos interesting.
Nice video. Mark.
Thanks.
Such beautiful kitchen ware, had no idea they used Uranium in the color! Thanks for the information. You may want to look up the Radium Dial girls story,very sad and horrific!😢
Thanks…and I’ve read about the radium girls. It’s a pretty horrific story.
Good job.
Thanks.
The holy grail for glass blowers is the Corning glass uranium glass rods dead stock. These tubes can still be found. I actually have a dab rig that is made out of this Corning uv glass.
i want that tea set
Awesome! I wonder that you going in the desert again with your drone stuff and exploring!
I’m out exploring right now. Getting a bunch of footage. Way too windy to fly my drone today.
@@RadioactiveDrew I put gold prospecting aside for the profits of looking for geochemical uranium targets, it's thrilling!! since you convinced me to buy a geiger counter in your videos I see many radioactive hot spot that nobody even know.
That was great. That black ash tray was a great find. smoking is way more dangerous than radiation from that ashtray. they still have that color but not radioactive anymore. it has to be before WW2 time . even though they go the go ahead to use after the way I do not know of anyone that used it in glazing. outher pigments were found and i think cheaper. this a great mark in history. ☢
The radiation is a great way to date certain objects.
Drew, you have to do one flying in a airline specially above 30,000 feet. One short hop with a top reading above 2000 CPM.
Next time I'm on a flight I'll being doing this.
Never seen such an extensive collection before. My ex-wife has a few Fiestaware pieces and a few uranium glass vases.
This was most of the collection.
nice collection
Thanks.
Its a beautiful color
Flea market season opens soon in my neck of the woods. Might take my Terra-P with me or my Ludlum with me. Preferably my Ludlum since the Terra-P goes batpoo crazy with it's alarm if the set threshold is reached.
The Terra-P is both a dosimeter and Geiger counter in one. Gamma only though. Takes the biscuit compared to my Soeks dosimeter.
Awesome.
Radium content in uranium ore is very low: Marie and Pierre Curie had to process several tons of pitchblende in order to get 1/10 g of radium chloride. The distance ionizing radiation travels in a medium depends on its quantic energy.
Yes the amount of radium in uranium ore is extremely small. But the half-life of radium 226 is 1600 years which is much shorter than uranium 238 half-life of 4.5 billion years. This makes the radium much more radioactive even in far smaller quantities.
I love your videos
Thanks.
I can say for certain that you are the reason I turned into a radiation collector. I now have hit up all the antique and thrift stores to make up my collection.
Glad I could introduce you to a new hobby.
Great video. Just bought my first radioactive orange plate at the antique store. Does the small amount of gamma emitted travel as far as the beta does? or is it mostly just within a few inches of the plates?
Sounds like you are thinking about alpha radiation…that only goes a couple inches in air. Gamma radiation goes a very long way. But since these plates give off very little gamma it’s harder to detect further away.
Damn, really jealous of that radeye, too bad its so expensive, also that collection is massive lol.
The Radeye has shot up in price. I bought mine in 2017 for $1300...now its over $2100.
Did you ever test that ashtray with the 103 to see exactly what is in the glaze? Love the videos!
I could have tested it with the 102 or 103. But I’m fairly sure that it’s a uranium glaze. Might have to test it now that you brought it up.
Actually quite beautiful
They are.
my favorite part is that your just chilling around all these
Trying to show that even though these are radioactive there’s nothing to fear.
@@RadioactiveDrew yeah, i think most people fear it because it could give you cancer.
I have learnt that alpha rays are the most dangerous if they are inside the body, which they often dont because they are stopped so easily. But is there not a risk of getting exposed to a lot of alpha rays using these tiles for eating and drinking? Or is the dose too small to make a difference unless you actually eat the tiles?
Yeah, unless you are eating the plates you should be okay.
I wanted to let you know that the radium crème I can't remember what it's called people have said they think they faked putting radium in it cause back then it brought more eyes to a product because they can't find any trace of it being in there and I've talked to people who sampled it in the lab however I still think it's cool the history of radium and uranium used in glazes and in glass 😊I love this stufffffffff
I’ve heard of that as well. Some products had some ridiculous amounts of radium in them and others had none.
Look at this man, these plates sunburnt and disfigured him.
I have original ware it was my great gmas. And i didn't know this. We use them daily.
So many people used these plates with zero health effects.
😂 "that's right this are radio active" you already knew we would come soughting for this
hey I got an interesting experiment for you to try is to see if the uranium glaze has any antibacterial properties
Very interesting, thank you for sharing 😊
No problem…thanks for watching.
Dang I knew about the green uranium glass but I didn’t know about the orange type!
There is a green glass from the same era which has uranium in it. Perhaps you could collect it as well.
I do collect it. Just not as much as the ceramics.
My mother worked at Coors porcelain for many years and she made alot of ashtrays. She lived to be almost 100.
That's pretty cool. I hope I can find more of those pieces next time I visit Colorado.
WOW!!!
I have some that are non-orange or red, they are a dark speckled brown, but not quite as dark as the black in your video. Drips of dark brown flow over a base glaze. I have no information on them. I have a plate, teacup and matching base plate in the same style, and salt and pepper shakers that are all this brown dripped style and pretty spicy (between 20-70 uSv/hr). Have you ever seen any in this style? Thanks for the great video!
I’ve seen some pieces that look like the ones you are describing. Uranium glazed ceramics can have some interesting colors that’s for sure.
@@RadioactiveDrew Truly! Happy hunting!
7:31 Coors made ceramics to stay alive during the depression. Mortar and pestle made by coors are common in high school chemistry classes.
The ash tray glaze must be either uranium dioxide or maybe some uranium(III) compound as these are also black. IIRC the orange glaze would be uranium trioxide (UO3), i.e. uranium(VI).
The variety of colours of uranium seems to be almost as rich as that of chromium.
Of course on all oxidation states will be available for glazing as some are prone to further oxidation (will change colour in the kiln).
Uranium has some very colorful oxidation states. From what I’ve seen with glazes is that when the uranium glaze is applied it looks yellow and after getting baked by the kiln it turns orange (uranium trioxide).
I was a spray booth operator at the homer Laughlin china company. Cobalt is also radioactive.
Natural cobalt isn’t radioactive. Cobalt-60 that is made in a nuclear reactor is.
Also .. The pale green ( Uranium ) glass .. ( really great under UV light ! ) ... DAVE™🛑
Does the fiestaware glow under a blacklight/uv?
Finally i found some orange stuff in Berlin, its on the walls of trainstations. 30-100 micro sievert 40.000 cpm with GQ gmc 600+. Seconds ago i ordered a Radiacode 102, please tell me it is nearly the same as your 101?
One thing I've wondered about: If this stuff has uranium in it, and a lot of it is being washed at the same time, or stored in water by people thinking they're shielding themselves from radiation, couldn't the water act as a moderator, and produce a low grade reaction?
I doubt it but that’s an interesting question
The water could act as a moderator if there was enough material. It would take enough plates to fill a large classroom in a pool of water. You might get a reaction. The glaze might not be dense enough to get a reaction going. Would be an interesting experiment.
@@RadioactiveDrew Indeed, and I just remembered you'd need beryllium reflectors to enhance neutron production, too. :)
Not necessarily. The first graphite reactor used natural uranium in oxide and metal form. These uranium slugs were spaced out and inserted into the graphite blocks that had holes drilled into the blocks for the slugs. So they used graphite as the moderator and the reactor had no air or water cooling. It was a proof of concept. So it was brought up to critical and then powered down.
@@RadioactiveDrew Ah, ok. Kind of like the Chernobyl plant, but just without a cooling loop. Cool. Well, hot, actually. LOL ;)
I think I have a butter dish that is this stuff. My grandma is a hoarder and lives at Goodwill and I found one dish dish this color I mean looks almost same pattern I need to get a way to see if it's radio active
Thats the perfect dining and crockery set, to invite HELEN CALDICOTT over for dinner . Exports of Uranium from the USA were also banned during WW2. Harry Hopkins, FDR's right hand man circumvented that, and organized a shipment of Uranium from Canada to the USSR that was transported by lend/lease flights.
With how worked up Caldicott gets about any type of radiation she might melt if she saw all these.
Does the radicode 102 pick up the radiation from this cook ware
Beautiful collection!
Yeah it is interesting to see how much radon gas is produced with these different sources. Radium produces the most because it’s next in line after radium.
Also it was Pu239 used in the Trinity test.
@@RadioactiveDrewin this case, the radium produces more radon because the U glaze hadn't had long enough to reach equilibrium. Large pieces of U ore are absolutely packed with radon, since they've reached secular equilibrium. But even then, paint will emanate much more since most of the radon remains trapped in the ore, whereas the thin layer of the paint is much more permeable.
The reason why radium paint gives off so much more radon is because radium is right before radon in the decay series.
@@RadioactiveDrew erm, no, that doesn't apply when comparing to uranium ores, which is what I mentioned.
@@RadioactiveDrew radium paint is very porous and let's lots of radon escape. The glazes contain negligible radium, and hence produce essentially no radon. Uranium ore is packed with radium, and lots of radon, but with little opportunity for the radon gas to escape the rock and become airborne. A better way of wording what you're saying would be to say that U glazes contain negligible radium since they've had no time to reach equilibrium.
Sounds like a silly question, & I’m a chemist..but as it decays, will the color of the glaze/item change??,love ur channel!
That is a good question. I think it might change but it would take an extremely long time for it to show up. The different oxidation states of uranium have some interesting colors. But I’m certain that would change when enough of it decayed into another element.
Unfortunately you & I will never know. Thanks for your reply!
I think that’s safe to say.
Hi quick question i have been collecting uranium glass for some time but i was always curious about the red fiesta ware is it safe to have in my house and be around?
Yes, it’s safe to have in your house. I have a bunch in a display case, that blocks the majority of the radiation. I also have some pieces out in the open. The real problem is if the uranium gets inside you. I wouldn’t use them to eat out of to play it safe.
Do the plates glow under black light?
I think the antique shop closed sadly. I got some cool stuff there.
3:30 “That’s not so bad…”
3:33 “OH GOD MY EARS!”
When the feds show up to your door one day with a Geiger counter
I welcome them to have a talk…with a warrant. Nothing I’m doing is illegal in anyway shape or form.
When are you going to post the video on neutron activation?
That's going to be a little while. I have some traveling coming up for videos on the channel. I'm hoping in the next couple of months I can start with the activation videos.
@@RadioactiveDrew OK, Thanks!
How convenient, dish and tiles 2 things that stay with you mostly for your whole life
Well that is very unlikely that it would ever do anyone any actual harm. Even if it did no harm still its an interesting and valuable collection that stands to become more rare and more valuable as time goes bye and really should not be put in a place where it might be damaged.
I take care of these. I hope to have them around for a while.
He did say not to eat off it , i agree with him, it would do harm if you are that 1% and ingest the uranium.
Would uranium glass jewelry be safe? I recently got into collecting vintage jewelry and I realized some pieces were glowing. It kind of freaked me out.
As long as you aren’t eating it you’re good.
How much does a decent gieger counter cost? My dad is an antiquer.
The Better Geiger is decent one to get started. But it’s going to have a hard time seeing the majority of the radiation that most radioactive antiques emit.
With all the radioactive pottery and glazes and all the other radioactive stuff along with your radium water pitcher I don't know if I've ever seen you test for radon! What are these levels at I am finding higher levels of radon where I'm storing my pottery.
I have an Air Things radon monitor in my house. Doesn't get to any level I would be concerned about. Seen it as high as 30 pCi/l when we've been gone for a week or so with no air moving around in the house. usually its around 8-13 pCi/l. When I stick it in a cabinet full of radioactive items it goes up to 250-300 pCi/l.
@RadioactiveDrew I have the air things also and I had the door closed in the room I have all my stuff stored in and it got up to almost 16 which they definitely try to tell you is pretty high but I opened the window a crack and it goes right down to 2. But damn 200 to 300 that's pretty nuts that would be quite the waft coming in from opening the door of the cabinet! Do you keep your revigator in the same room? Did they hook you up with the 103 yet also? Their newest Geiger?
@hbenn420 I usually keep that Revigator in the garage with all the other too hot for the house items. I don’t open that cabinet very often plus I haven’t noticed the radon level going up since items have been in that cabinet. I’m sure they contribute to the radon in the house because that cabinet is far from air tight. Radiacode did send me out a 103, I’ve been using it as my primary for a while now.