Not all items are bright green; other colors include yellow and amber. And uranium glass isn’t limited to drinkware and plates. Look for decorative sugar dishes, mixing bowls and lamps.

It’s glass manufactured with a small amount of uranium added to achieve a distinctive yellow-green color. In its heyday, the glass was often called “Vaseline glass” because its translucent ...

Not all items are bright green; other colors include yellow and amber. And uranium glass isn’t limited to drinkware and plates. Look for decorative sugar dishes, mixing bowls and lamps.

German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovered the element in 1789, and glassmakers later began using it to colour glass in shades ranging from bright green to pale yellow. The term “uranium ...

Uranium glass, often called “vaseline glass” due to its yellow-green glow under UV light, exists in its own ultra-unique realm of Depression glass. This type of glass contains small amounts of ...

In the US in the late 1880s, La Belle Glass Company developed what became known as Ivory or Custard glass by increasing the concentration of uranium oxide, which made the effect more opaque.

These radioactive compounds gave desirable green and yellow tints to myriad household items, such as this jar. Here, the uranium glass fluoresces bright green under ultraviolet light. Submitted by ...

A popular colorant used worldwide, uranium peaked in popularity in the United States between 1958 and 1978, when more than 4 million pieces of decorative uranium glass were manufactured, according ...