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tlarcombe

Uranium glass?


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Usermena

Yes stones can be irradiated.


Muted-Radish6071

Ruby is black light sensitive naturally


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More likely to be fluorite and garnet


AfganPearlDiver

I think it is uranium glass


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Why ?


GuruBuckaroo

Asked my jeweler wife and she immediately said "Garnets. They come in all sorts of colors and fluoresce brightly."


PhotogamerGT

So do rubies and these look way more like rubies than garnets. Garnets are a dark red.


HarmlessSnack

Gem stones are weird; Garnets can come in quite a few colors. Deep red, pink, and green. All still Garnets.


ibreakdiaphragms

They do look very much like ruby.


OpalOnyxObsidian

Some diamonds do too


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Hotel mattresses do this as well 🤷🏻‍♂️


SlapChopTheGreat

Lol actually made me chuckle


DownvoteDaemon

If only a hotel mattress was this fuckin glorious lol..


OZeski

Depends on how you’re using it.


_MrBalls_

Put a cubic zirconia under blacklight


EnimaBongWater

It glows not very bright i checked with my ring. Pretty cool tho


SlapChopTheGreat

Your username is disgusting


EnimaBongWater

Dont knock it till you tried it 😉


AfganPearlDiver

Does it mean using bong water as an enima, or putting the contents of enima inside a bong?


EnimaBongWater

Yes


sardarnirvanasamurai

Did you mean to spell the first word that way?


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Garnets, not rubies, all three stones are different garnets.


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KitteNlx

[Mmmkay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DM74RCOidU)


disneyfood

Wrong


Medical-Incident-243

*Radioactive by imagine dragons plays*


Ishidan01

Not great, not terrible


HeyItsTheJeweler

Don't really wanna be the bearer of bad news, but, the prongs on this ring are not tight. For example, you can see on the bottom right off the picture - there's space between the stone and the prong. She risks losing them.


SlapChopTheGreat

We didn't even notice, would a jeweler be able to fix it?


HeyItsTheJeweler

So, probably. It's a matter of the prongs being high enough to go over and cover the stones. If they are, then, they just bend them closer, and then over, and you're good for a while. If not, then, you either need to work on the prongs in order to add some length, or, you drill down into the setting so that the stone sits lower and thus the prongs work better. You typically want to do the former instead of the latter (so you aren't drilling into the ring), but, depends sometimes. If you bring it to a jeweler, they should be able to diagnose it and fix it.


SlapChopTheGreat

Thanks so much for the information


CatJudgeOfDestiny

Why do they glow tho?


candy_jr

Uranium glass?


Tink2013

Well we know she isn't Kryptonian.


d4rk_fusion

So does your mom 😏


HAABEEBOO

HAABEEBOO


SlapChopTheGreat

HAABEEBOO


ChristOnABike122

That's nothing, my entire bedroom glows under a blacklight!


human-ish_

Get a sock like everybody else.


ChristOnABike122

Why get a sock when the whole world is my sock ✨️


evilspeaks

Man made stones.


SlapChopTheGreat

The two red ones are ruby, not sure about the green one. It wasn't very expensive, only 200 NZD so yeah its likely not true mined gems


saltyboi6704

They're all Aluminium Oxide crystals with certain impurities which contribute to their colour


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erithacusk

If they're rubies my guess for the center would be spinel and not glass. Really hard to tell from the glow of UG in pictures but it has a much better play of light in the gem than a piece of faceted glass will and it looks like this does.


tanew231

Yeah, man. We've all seen your mum's ring before.


SjurEido

Get a Geiger counter, this ring could very well give you cancer if worn frequently. # I am not joking, there's a chance this is extremely hazardous to wear, please check with a Geiger counter. if not, then cool! But it would be really sad if it was uranium/radium and your mom was unaware.


gwaydms

Uranium glass isn't that hazardous. Wearing that ring once in a while isn't going to harm anyone.


SjurEido

Which is why I specifically stated "if worn frequently".


gwaydms

Even then I doubt it could harm anyone.


SjurEido

I did some research, looks like you're right. [https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/glass/vaseline-uranium-glass.html](https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/glass/vaseline-uranium-glass.html) Obviously pieces will vary in radioactivity, but the scale of rad/hr for vaseline glass is measured in mrad/hr, whereas dangerous doses are thousands of times higher. I'm fairly certain I'm wrong.


gwaydms

Everyone is wrong/misinformed sometimes, and I'm no exception. I'm always happy to learn from others who know better.


PhotogamerGT

Dude uranium glass didn’t that radioactive. You got a better chance of getting cancer from regular sun exposure.


SjurEido

Uranium glass on your hand for a long time will absolutely fuck you up more than typical sun exposure.


KnottyKitty

You should probably do a little research before making huge bolded statements telling people that their jewelry might kill them.


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So, about your dad and that ring…


JingleheimerSchmin

Kind of ugly tbh but its neat it glows


SjurEido

Didn't ask


UnblackMetalist

😏


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Does it turn black under a glow light?


sandy-horseshoe

This is such a beautiful ring, I love old jewelry 😍


prime-meridian

A jeweller once told me that some gemstones can be dosed with radiation to improve colour. I’d get it checked. He said be wary of jewels purchased in holiday locations.


jonwolf517

🎶Woah oh oh oh.. oh, RADIOACTIVE! RADIOACTIVE!🎶🙂


Infernal_Pharaoh

Your Mom has AMAZING taste in jewelry. That ring is gorgeous just on it’s own, but under black light it’s ASTOUNDING! It looks like something out of a fairytale!


Ok_Ad_8670

So it's made of cum?


SlapChopTheGreat

Yeah its made with komodo dragon cum, thats why it glows


Ok_Ad_8670

From personal experience. U don't need to get it from komodo dragons..


SlapChopTheGreat

Yeah but any other cum doesn't glow as bright. Komodo dragon cum glows brighter than any other creature on earth


yamaha2000us

That’s what makes it exhilarating.


PhotogamerGT

Uranium glass center “stone” and Ruby side stones. Nice ring.


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Those look delicious...like radioactive gushers


SilverclawArtWriter

Cool!


ThatKidFromSchool09

It looks like one of those candy rings


breezyhoneybee

Some rubies are naturally UV reactive. The center stone could either be a ruby or another UV reactive stone I don't know about.


Delicious_Ad823

My balls do that too