Bottle diggers use the term 'sick' when a bottle looks crazed, cracked etc, I think in glass not so old and buried they may be affected by pressure and heat, as some dumps were regularly set on fire etc.Very interesting cheers.
Interesting. Will look at the wikipedia explanation. Previously just thought the glass was radioactively unstable (like rubber which decays with age) but with the correct radiation the decay could be halted.
Bottle diggers use the term 'sick' when a bottle looks crazed, cracked etc, I think in glass not so old and buried they may be affected by pressure and heat, as some dumps were regularly set on fire etc.Very interesting cheers.
Interesting! I didn’t know this happened on glass as ‘late’ as this.
I’ve seen it on Victorian glass too, but there were backstreet glass furnaces in Stourbridge, which might explain why bad chemistry was still around.
Interesting. Will look at the wikipedia explanation. Previously just thought the glass was radioactively unstable (like rubber which decays with age) but with the correct radiation the decay could be halted.
Check the wiki reference in the video description. The problem is all bad chemistry.
How about “how to collect”? That’s an interesting topic. Budgeting, setting boundaries and to what end are you building your collection.
I’ve added to my list.
If I find one of these it goes right in the trash
I wouldn’t, I’ve had quite a lot of guilt free drinks out of that glass with the thought, it’s destined to die at some point.