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#neat! #it's hard to see some of the details of the medicine bottle but you can guesstimate how old it is based on a few #it's probably mold blown given the design and no punty mark (post 1865) #also makes sense with rectangular bottles between the 1870s and 1920s #It could also be machine made in the v early 1900s but too hard to tell #the sides also aren't super visible but you could take a look at mold seams as well #particularly the lip of the bottle and whether it has an applied or tooled finish #I'm thinking tooled finish which would put it likely post 1880 (tags from @gaypapercuts)

Very cool info!! I don't know enough about glasswork to give any more insights on the design details, but from what I know about the history of the area post 1880 makes a lot of sense!

I've discovered something cool.

Left: A 100+ year old medicine bottle that my parents dug up in their backyard when I was a kid. Their house is built where the old municipal dump was in the late 1800s, so there were lots of bottles like it buried in the dirt. Right: An ordinary wine glass from the 1990s. Both of these things have been sat on a shelf gathering dust for over a decade.

...Until recently, when I got my hands on a UV flashlight.

[Video description: The bottle and wine glass described above sit next to each other on a table, with the bottle on the left and glass on the right. They are lit from above by a normal incandescent bulb, though the bulb is out of shot. There is a plastic squeaking sound, and the light dims and turns off, leaving the screen dark. There is a click, and a UV flashlight turns on off screen, to the left. Under its light, the bottle glows yellow-green, and the wine glass glows blue. The light holds for a few seconds, then turns off with another click, leaving the screen dark until the video cuts out.]

They glow!!! (These two aren't the only ones either, just the ones with the brightest color.)

There are a lot of different things that can be mixed into glass to make it fluoresce under UV (including, perhaps most famously, uranium). After doing some research, I think I've pinned down these two.

The bottle has manganese, which was (ironically) used to remove the green tint from glass and make it colorless.

The wine glass has lead, which increases the reflectivity of glass to make it more sparkly (and can also leach off into your drink and give you lead poisoning. Whoops!)

As I'm sure you can tell I've been nerding out over this big time. I love when science is pretty :)

#comments #personal #glass #uv glass #manganese glass #lead glass #science

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cirrus-grey · 14 hours

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When he realized red is the good part of the watermelon.. 😅

#queue infinity and beyond #cats

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lads!!!! its official!! im having another exhibition next week :)

imagine you walk into an art gallery and you see this shit

#queue infinity and beyond #tag later #the magnus archives #magnus archives fanart #the dinghy #art

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Babel.

The M25 was not the first time Crowley decided to meddle in the public building sector.

#queue infinity and beyond #tag later

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Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio.

#ah #ow #queue infinity and beyond #tag later

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Discworld-"What I Did On My Holidays"

Really wished this book was real, and it's all just a picture book on the events of "The Color of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic"

And hey!, it's my first time drawing Rincewind and Two-Flower! Let's go!!!!

#queue infinity and beyond #tag later

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So I was having a conversation with a friend about old anime and in the middle of it she forgot the word "canonical" and she instead inflicted a spectacular new aesthetic and slew of mental images on me by saying the phrase "Biblically Accurate Ouran High School Host Club".

#queue infinity and beyond #random

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I've discovered something cool.

Left: A 100+ year old medicine bottle that my parents dug up in their backyard when I was a kid. Their house is built where the old municipal dump was in the late 1800s, so there were lots of bottles like it buried in the dirt. Right: An ordinary wine glass from the 1990s. Both of these things have been sat on a shelf gathering dust for over a decade.

...Until recently, when I got my hands on a UV flashlight.

[Video description: The bottle and wine glass described above sit next to each other on a table, with the bottle on the left and glass on the right. They are lit from above by a normal incandescent bulb, though the bulb is out of shot. There is a plastic squeaking sound, and the light dims and turns off, leaving the screen dark. There is a click, and a UV flashlight turns on off screen, to the left. Under its light, the bottle glows yellow-green, and the wine glass glows blue. The light holds for a few seconds, then turns off with another click, leaving the screen dark until the video cuts out.]

They glow!!! (These two aren't the only ones either, just the ones with the brightest color.)

There are a lot of different things that can be mixed into glass to make it fluoresce under UV (including, perhaps most famously, uranium). After doing some research, I think I've pinned down these two.

The bottle has manganese, which was (ironically) used to remove the green tint from glass and make it colorless.

The wine glass has lead, which increases the reflectivity of glass to make it more sparkly (and can also leach off into your drink and give you lead poisoning. Whoops!)

As I'm sure you can tell I've been nerding out over this big time. I love when science is pretty :)

#personal #original post #glass #glowing #cool #science #uv glass #glow in the dark #manganese glass #lead glass #lead crystal #uv #crystal #i know thats a lot of tags but i want Everyone to see this

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evolution of the archivist

#queue infinity and beyond #tag later

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humbly offer this jmart 🤲

edit: someone asked for an ID, so heres the one they wrote (plus some extra edits by me):

[ID: Digital Magnus Archives fanart of Jon and Martin kissing in an archive’s closet. Martin holds Jon, one hand on Jon’s neck and the other holding his waist, bending Jon backwards a bit. Jon has one hand cupping Martin's jaw/cheek and one on his chest. The closet is small and dim, but a single green lightbulb above them emits a starburst glow and casts them in green light. A little bit of light emits from the door through the shades down to the ground. End ID]

#queue infinity and beyond #tag later

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The Angel and the Eye

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Passing this along because this knowledge is changing my life:

If you want to stop your periods with something more permanent than birth control meds, but not as invasive as a hysterectomy, there's a procedure called an ablation that removes the endometrial lining and stops the monthly bleeding. Apparently the recovery is like. 1 day. Only caveat is it makes pregnancy very dangerous so don't do it if you want kids.

I'm on cloud nine right now.

#thanks for adding this!!! youve given me some important questions to ask at the pre-op #ill be honest i went into this whole thing thinking my periods /werent/ usually painful and everyone else was just dealing with them better #and its been a bit of a shock to actually start talking with doctors and realize that no‚ its not normal and im not overreacting #...and it probably shouldn't be such a surprise because every afab relative on my moms side has needed a hysterectomy by the time theyre 40 #(in the last 3 generations at least)#but anyway #hoping i can get away with a minor surgery now and avoid a major one later!#health #menstruation #periods #reproductive health #comments

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knight strip tease. is that anything

#queue infinity and beyond #random #knights #armor

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An easy rule for DMs to remember: If you don't want your players to adopt random NPCs and animals, don't feature any NPCs or animals. Based on a submission from @windmorrow Want me to doodle your D&D party? Commissions are open! Currently $20/character. Visit my page or send an e-mail to yourdndstories @ gmail, subject 'Doodles', for more information.

#queue infinity and beyond #dnd #comic

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