Brimstone: uranium/cadmium glass necklace/earrings

Description

Do you know what uranium glass looks like?
Are you sure?
In that case, try your skills on this spectacular necklace and earrings in sunny shades of yellow glass. The huge faceted rounds seem to be in the classic pale tint of greenish Vaseline jonquil, but even I'm not sure if they really do have any uranium content-- when my ultraviolet flashlight is pressed right up to them by themselves in complete pitch-darkness, sometimes they seem as if they might have a faint whisper of dying firefly glow, but that gets completely overshadowed with electric-lime fluorescence whenever my usual uranium-glass beads are around (including some of the smaller beads in similar jonquil yellow). In the UV pic, the huge rounds in the necklace centerpiece are mostly reflecting the other beads around them-- the ones in the earrings are dark, though of course they're also farther away from the center of the UV beam.
So how about the other beads? Some of the ones with richer shades of transparent golden-brown are uranium-glass blends; some have no uranium glass at all. Ditto for the beads in bright, opaque lemon-yellow-- flip back and forth between the UV pic and the normal-light reference to see where the green uranium glow pops on and off.
And then there are a few faceted bicones in a brassier transparent yellow, whose fluorescence under UV is vivid tangerine-orange :D Instead of uranium, those are made with cadmium sulfide, which explains their normal-light color as a blend of sulfurous brimstone and classic "cadmium yellow" paint.
(Although the recent warnings about jewelry with cadmium metal are valid and should be heeded, cadmium glass is just as safe as uranium glass and lead crystal-- the heavy metals are ionized into the glass matrix and can't leach through your skin. Mind you, it's a bad idea to crunch it up and eat it, but that's true of any type of glass. Pointy bits, you know.)
All of the beads are imported glass-- mostly Czech; the one exception is the cadmium bicones, which came from a local beadshow without upstream info-- and I've hand-strung them onto their respective scaffolds. The necklace is on 30lb-test gel-spun polymer, a high-tech fiber even stronger than steel wires; the main strand is ~22" from clasp to clasp, and the centerpiece drop is about 3" long. The earrings are about 1-1/2" long, mounted with hand-wrapped eyeloops onto sterling silver headpins and attached to sterling silver half-round pierced studs. The necklace endcaps and trigger/split-ring clasp are also sterling silver.
Please check my other listings for more pretties, and thanks for looking!  ^_^