manganese glass
Jun. 18th, 2008 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat1138Well hey-- I appear to have even more glowy stuff than I thought I did. A question from eBay made me start poking around in my bead stash with both UV LEDs, and it appears that in the presence of relatively narrow-band near UV w/ minimal spillover into the visible range, manganese glass has a very faint green glow. It's not nearly as spectacular as the usual uranium-glass glow, and it requires complete darkness and a black background (and optimally a fairly pale, transparent shade of purple). But it does have some glow on.
Which means now I have to buy more beads again argh. But at least I finally located the camera again, so I've been slowly writing up new listings in between attempting to use some of my recent acquisitions from the local bead show... although the latter effort keeps getting very literally quashed by Spot coming to blissfully lie down smack in the middle of my beadage layout :b
Which means now I have to buy more beads again argh. But at least I finally located the camera again, so I've been slowly writing up new listings in between attempting to use some of my recent acquisitions from the local bead show... although the latter effort keeps getting very literally quashed by Spot coming to blissfully lie down smack in the middle of my beadage layout :b