A new area to explore for manganese glass for me - antique medical and laboratory glass!
G’day everybody, it’s me, Lucky_Living_, who posted about the lightbulb with the manganese internal tube a little while ago. Lately I’m looking for new and interesting forms of manganese glass. I love all my drinking glasses and bottles and bowls, but I also want new and weird glowing pieces. Trying to come up with a new place to explore is thrilling to me. And when I’m rewarded for my efforts with a new find I’m elated. Like with this “antique glass syringe” I found online.
I had read that laboratory glass is usually not manganese because the manganese makes glass more likely to break when expanding or contracting with heat, and therefore unsuitable for many lab applications.
But this syringe gives me hope there could be some interesting pieces to be found in these fields! The barrel does not glow, but the inner plunger glows beautifully! And yes l looked at a diagram of a syringe to make sure I was getting my syringe component terminology right 😆. I would love to hear what weird and cool shit the rest of you guys are coming across out there.
Small marble for scale.