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It’s important to keep some special dishes around, for when family visits

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The accompanying photo shows two pieces of Fiestaware produced by the Homer Laughlin Company of West Virginia: a Fiesta red saucer and an ivory bowl. In each case, uranium was used to provide the color of the glaze. Although the radioactivity of both is easily detectable, that of the Fiesta red is head and shoulders above the ivory.
Two pieces of Fiestaware, one red and one ivory.

Fiestaware (ca. 1930s)

Fiestaware produced beginning in the mid-1930s often contained detectable levels of radioactivity. Fiesta red has been recognized as having the greatest levels radioactivity with some measurements indicating that, by weight, up to 14% of the glaze mi…
Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity
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