Apr. 21st, 2009

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Unfortunately, my camera is still limping along in mostly-zombie mode, so no pix-- but last week I finally saw something I'd heard about, but never encountered in person: glass that fluoresces bright tangerine-orange under UV. Under natural light, it's a clear, strong sulfur-yellow; the most common term for it seems to be "manganese glass", but based on a bit more geekly investigation, I think the magic ingredient is really cadmium sulfide or cadmium sulfate.

The initial piece I found was a thick molded goblet; over the weekend, I found some beadage made of the same stuff. Yow.

I really, really need to get the camera working again :b

However, did manage to grab the website image of the really amazingly bad supposedly-Sinographic rubber stamp I mentioned a while back:

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