Radioactive Kitchenware
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This is a video about a depression glass cup and a uranium oxide coated bowl. The bowl is made by a company called oxford, I dont know anything about this company so if you have any info please let me know! Thanks for watching and please subscribe
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oxford huh? i have 2 true fiestawares and one not but i will look it up and give you the details
Thanks
Nice Geiger counter – looks a lot like the Civil Defense one my chemistry teacher had laying around in his classroom last year.
my teacher had one, then he gave it to me!!
Your bowl was manufactured by the Oxford/Universal Pottery company. They were stationed in Cambridge, OH and produced the piece you have between 1913-1954.
Interesting, thanks!
That frickin bowl is crazy radioactive. Never seen a household item give off that much. Even getting a reading that far away is kinda scary. Id keep it in a shed outside, lol
and the sad thing is thats not even the most radioactive or most dangerous radioactive item i have
It’s just beta. Close the probe and you won’t get hardly anything coming off of it.
Wow that is a hot bowl; I just got my CD-700 out and tested my Fiestaware plate, and only get around 2000 cpm max on that, less than you got on the outside and less than half than the inside!
One useful trick for determining cpm is find the conversion factor; since the scale ends at 300 and .5 mr/hr, then every 1 mr/hr is 600 cpm, so use the top scale and multiply mr/hr * (1, 10, 100) * 600 and voila. =) Good find!
Thanks for the tip!
back in the day companys would make radioactive kitchen ware for the health benefits. there is a good chance that is the case with this bowl. usually they would use radium in the glaze though.
Wear that thing over your penis to protect it. It’ll be good for you and your penis, I promise!
Lol kidding.. Man your kinda scaring me. I wonder how much stuff I own is potentially radioactive. Never occurs to think about that.
radiation tharapy i guess.
throw that frieken boul out!!! more than a couple minutes in that radiation can kill you! either you caould save hundreds of lives by telling them to throw out stuff by that company or youur gadget there is busted… D:)
@shindak666 what if its a girl moron…
@phillipdogyface Actually it cant, you obviously dont know anything about this hobby or radiation. These bowls were made 50 to 70 years ago, thats why people dont use these any more.