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To: bgill

Was RED Fiestaware ever actually radioactive???


4 posted on 05/11/2010 7:22:41 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie

Very. Ironically, the most radioactive ware was Fiesta Red made by Homer Laughlin from 1959 to 1972, using depleted uranium which the Atomic Energy Commission had made available for commercial use; depleted uranium is far more radioactive and toxic than sodium uranate and resulted in glazes that produced radon.


7 posted on 05/11/2010 7:35:58 AM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: hennie pennie

I don’t think so.


8 posted on 05/11/2010 7:39:35 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: hennie pennie

I believe it was but they fixed it since. My sons physics class took a Geiger counter to some other red/orange dishware (3 yrs ago) and it was radioactive.


17 posted on 05/11/2010 8:31:02 AM PDT by Varda
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