Glass with Uranium added to it to become fluorescent due to Uranium's chemical properties. This is unrelated to Uranium's nuclear properties.
However it was this fluorescence that led Henri Becquerel to discover radioactivity while studying fluorescence, which led him to have Uranium compounds and photographic material in close proximity. I love science I guess.
Discovery Of The Elements by Mary Elvira Weeks by
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6th edition (1956) on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/discoveryoftheel002045mbp
Ciro Santilli defines "Smooth Jazz" simply as jazz that he can leave on the background to work without being particularly distracted.
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- Page One by Joe Henderson (1963)
Bibliography:
Discovery of chemical elements bibliography by
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The Secrets of the Super Elements
. Source. 2019, by the BBC. Official page: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rv9r6. There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.