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I just got a UV flash light and flashed straight down in my marble boxes. 😄 Most of the marbles didn’t respond or responded very little or partial BUT these yellow opaques had an amazing glow. Don’t know if yellow responds in general or if these are special.

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THEN I discovered something so cool. Together with my latest lot came two snippets of glass. I don’t know if they were ment to be marbles or not. They are round but not even and have pontils at both ends. And they glow green! 😍

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The famous yellow/green glow is from uranium, of course.

 

But other chemicals can do other colors.   I'm hesitant to say much  because I stumble over the chemical names and the oxides, but I remember calcium being involved somehow in an eery blue glow that I quite enjoy.  I  have seen it in some of my modern Marble King cat's eyes, and in a vintage jar.   

 

I once had a popeye with three or four colors of glow, including blue.  But I sold it.  Darn  it!

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20 hours ago, Steph said:

The famous yellow/green glow is from uranium, of course.

 

But other chemicals can do other colors.   I'm hesitant to say much  because I stumble over the chemical names and the oxides, but I remember calcium being involved somehow in an eery blue glow that I quite enjoy.  I  have seen it in some of my modern Marble King cat's eyes, and in vintage jar.   

 

I once had a popeye with three or four colors of glow, including blue.  But I sold it.  Darn  it!

It’s like yellow sometimes responds with a red/purple glow, at least in some of my marbles. I discovered two more yesterday.

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