Fiesta Dishes. Info

Posted on August 26, 2009 by FiestaFan

Collectors,

If you have been a fiestaware collectors for any lenght of time, you know the story of red fiestaware. Until 1943 red fiestaware, also called radioactive red fiestaware was made with uranium oxide, with the uranium content being about 0.7% U-235 and the remainder U-238. Between 1943 and 1959, the Laughlin company begain producing a red glaze dinnerware with the colorant then being technical grade uranium U-308 with the uranium content being made up of about 0.2% U-235 and the remainder U-238.

Red fiestaware has been found to be perfectly safe to eat off of without any side effects. If you want to see a couple of great videos that show radioactive red fiestaware setting off a Geiger Counter then go to Radioactive Red Fiesta
where you can see the videos and read more about red fiestaware.

Gladys

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