Often, 7 a.m. would find me in the operating room, standing across the surgical table from my associate surgeons, capped and gowned in pale green surgical garb.
Several other common subtypes of uranium glass have their own nicknames: custard glass (opaque or semiopaque pale yellow) jadite glass (opaque or semi-opaque pale green; initially, the name was trademarked as "Jadite", although this is sometimes over-corrected in modern usage to "jadeite") Depression glass (transparent or semitransparent pale green).
Modern uranium glass beads (white background) Modern uranium glass beads (black background) Modern uranium glass beads (UV light) The most typical color of uranium glass is pale yellowish-green, which in the 1920s led to the nickname vaseline glass based on a perceived resemblance to the appearance of petroleum jelly as formulated and commercially sold at that time.