The term “uranium glass” generally describes glass with uranium oxide, which glows under a black light. Other terms – Vaseline glass and Depression glass, for example – came later and ...

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 ...

You can identify vaseline glass with the naked eye because it's translucent, although other kinds of yellow glass that ...

The yellow or yellow-green, greasy appearance of petroleum jelly gives Vaseline glass its name. Its color comes from a small amount of uranium oxide content. This type of glass, according to Sue C.

Green- or yellow-colored glass is apt to have a low level of actual uranium in it as a coloring agent, not enough to make a bomb. Also called Vaseline glass (resembling the vague lime color of ...

but only uranium gives the oily translucence that gave rise to its nickname, Vaseline glass. And only uranium fluoresces. The late Barrie Skelcher, a uranium glass collector and author of two ...

Much later it became popularly known as Vaseline glass, due to its supposed resemblance to the famous brand of petroleum jelly. There were also plenty of other companies who were using uranium to ...

Some of this glass is called Vaseline, jadeite or canary glass. There are various uranium glass types that will fluoresce, or glow under black or ultraviolet (UV) light. There is an old saying in ...

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 ...

While roaming my favorite antique store outside Atlanta recently, I heard a “click click” sound and turned around to see a woman shining a black-light flashlight on a green plate. A few ...