Take “Vaseline glass.” For centuries, glassmakers would use small amounts of uranium to create dish ware named for its yellow or green tint that, when put under a UV light, caused the glass to ...

A few minutes later, a man joined her with a black box that began to hum when it got close to the plate ... the particular tint of uranium glass by sight without a UV light to confirm.

I vividly remember the first time I saw uranium glass. In daylight, the antique bowl looked ordinary—pale green, transparent glass with a decorative rim—but under a UV light, it transformed ...

This “uranium ... under ultraviolet (UV) light. Now back to that whole radiation thing. My partner freaked out when I brought home a cardboard box filled with about $100 worth of uranium glass ...

There are various uranium glass types that will fluoresce, or glow under black or ultraviolet (UV) light. There is an old saying in the antiques world: “It must glow green to be Vaseline.” ...