• gaycomputeruser [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    20 days ago

    If I remembering correctly the only actually bad thing they are doing is the wine. Otherwise uranium glass isn’t all that dangerous.

    I don’t remember this that well but I remember something about soaking the glass in vinegar removing most of the danger.

    • troybot [he/him]@midwest.social
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      20 days ago

      If anything is scraped or chipped by the metal utensils you could potentially ingest flakes of glass. Even that isn’t too bad because it’s a very minimal amount of uranium. I’d be more worried about damaging the items because some of those are rare and valuable.

      Only dangerous use of uranium glass would be in a piece of jewelry pressed against your skin, but even that would take many years before any slight increased chance of cancer.