What is Fool's Gold?

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In my opinion, fool’s gold is a really interesting mineral, and in this video, I try to show some of its cool properties.
This is the first in a series that I hope to do on mineral, so please suggest any other ones that you might like to see!
References:
• Making hydrogen sulfide: • Making a Hydrogen Sulf...
• Making Iron sulfide: • Making Iron (II) Sulfide
• 1moonbuggy video: • Is It Real Gold or Foo...
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[@Joey_Hughes]

0:13 "As a kid, I can sometimes remember looking through dirt." What a life.

[@Wockes]

and eating the dirt

[@dinosoarskill17]

I think we all did, some people just observe more than others.

[@dakshtheidiot]

Y’know playground gravel? It is prime spot for fossils!

[@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580]

i found smelly chocolate :)

[@weebyes2951]

when i was a kid i never played outside lol

[@elbarto8282]

So you’re telling me that the perfect cube in the stone was natural? Holy rock

[@parishna4882]

You should see how atoms are arranged.. It's like GOD said so. ahhahaha... god... I pmsl

[@Karldin83]

Have one too. Not as nice tho. Mine has slightly serrated sides, but it looks nice

[@sdoaiza]

bismuth is crazy too

[@akbarrmd7714]

"Perfectly balanced. Like all things should be"

[@FluffyFractalshard]

sacred geometry is everywhere in nature

[@aurum606]

"I carefully _shot it with a blowtorch_ " Mmm, such a careful action

[@xXGamingFactorXx]

"Did you put your name in the Goblet, Harry?" He asked calmly

[@crazyconstellations2532]

The movie: *inaudible yelling*

[@peasandmashedpotatoes6246]

hahah i guess it’s better than haphazardly using a blowtorch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@naveednawwaf]

Call of Duty 'Care' Package that is dropped from the sky into the ground.

[@thatbiachecalledLoue]

me when i smack my sisters head:

[@omomolol9636]

Immagine being an alchemist mixing iron and sulfur and shortly thinking to have found the recipe to make gold °-°

[@justyouraveragemartian783]

it isnt called fools gold for nothing!

[@Anthracite_coal]

i think i read somewhere that you have to use nuclear reactions in order to make gold, I'd stick with digging tho

[@MotivationAdonis]

@@Anthracite_coal yeah pretty sure it's radioactive

[@majesto8487]

@@Anthracite_coal yep nuclear fusion. you'd have to add protons basically until it has enough protons to be gold its really hard and expensive tho and i dont even think anyones done it yet

[@Animaster89]

alternatevely you could always just artificially cause a supernova by tempering with the balance in a sun and thereby create some gold on the side

[@yassminebouhouch60]

4:38 “So instead I bought a bunch of ugly ones from ebay” Wow how rude

[@blobfish_plays6548]

Cat love?

[@yassminebouhouch60]

Darth Hitler :)

[@blobfish_plays6548]

Good i love cats

[@polarisation]

@@LoverLikeNoOther you prolly Shane Dawson

[@siraj6716]

Weird cat fetish going on here

[@orbitalpotato9940]

Prospector: I have found gold Pyrite: *YOU FOOL, YOU'VE FALLEN FOR ONE OF THE MOST CLASSIC BLUNDERS*

[@Paradox_Edge]

YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON! YOU MADLAD! YOU PEN ULTIMATUM OF IDIOCY! 'TIS FAKE GOLD FELLOW PROSPECTORS!!!

[@Vladimir_Kv]

It was called "Fool's gold" not only because prospectors were finding it, but because alchemists used it along with gold plating to prove their "philosopher stone" hoax. They were showing this to the uneducated nobles and were showered in real gold (aka money) to promote their "research".

[@kasai7272]

INCONCEIVABLE

[@ocnarf40]

*THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK*

[@crewcut]

YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GOLD, BUT IT WAS ME! PYO!

[@dressedinwhite3673]

I didn't know that it is called "fools gold" in english. In my language you say "Katzengold" that you could translate with "cat gold". 🐱

[@janedoe7666]

ja, das ist richtig

[@securityism]

I want cat gold.

[@DEV-rw7eu]

@@securityism NO. you get cait bat

[@camopug]

@@securityism the internet is here for a reason, you could look it up

[@Kissalege]

Same in finland. Katin kulta

[@Nedskiee]

I work underground in a coal mine (Longwall) . Some times when we are cutting through certain parts of the seam you can see this pyrite through the whole face. It’s amazing, especially when you shine your cap lamp (head light) onto it you can really see it in contrast with how dark it is against the black coal face. Absolutely beautiful stuff, the whole coal face will sparkle with it. I have a few pieces of coal at home that are completely lousy with these pyrites. It’s simply amazing, beautiful stuff.

[@BigParadox]

Very cool, thanks for sharing this story!

[@AMan-xz7tx]

you gotta upload your work to youtube, people would love it

[@hydropage2855]

RIP your lungs

[@unoreverse-qe5dk]

the amount of times you called it beautiful really makes me wanna see it

[@LawsOnJoystick]

I work in an ug gold mine , the cubes are quiet large

[@anorak9383]

“It is about as toxic as cyanide gas, so I wasn’t super anxious to smell it” Well that didn’t age well

[@CheetahJona]

Lol yes

[@lrizzard]

@@mojad6137 he recently made a video where he smells cyanide for the heck of it

[@ecave3435]

he said excited

[@esha9114]

wait i own fool's gold....

[@noneofyourbusiness9907]

the gas isnt as toxic ?

[@lyrilmtv2428]

Moral of the story: fools gold is cooler than real gold

[@lewisj.9903]

Not sure I agree, because if you're reading this then you are looking at a device, who's higher functionality is dependent of Aur properties.

[@asa-ks1vf]

@@lewisj.9903 but gold can't naturally form really cool cubes 😎😎😎 unless they can and I'm just dumb 😎😎😎

[@lewisj.9903]

@@asa-ks1vf lol that I can agree on :) (the gold)

[@sswpp8908]

Gold = fool's pyrite

[@lyrilmtv2428]

@@sswpp8908 lol

[@FlawlessRythym]

What I found interesting from this video is that Pyrite is a formidable insulator. That torch probably burns at least 2500°F and for the exterior to turn red hot but only transfer the heat about 3mm deep is quite impressive.

[@jamiecurran3544]

I thought that too!🤔👍

[@maggiemaggie7641]

" id get really excited thinking I was rich or something only be quickly shut down and told that it was worthless" - Nile . finally I can relate to your videos

[@ICaligvla]

"Perfect geometry doesnt exist in the natural world" Pyrite:

[@reapeashooter2]

Bismuth:

[@safir2241]

Diamond:

[@ICaligvla]

@@safir2241 I mean Raw diamond is more commonly found in an irregular shape, infact it looks just like a regular rock. The only time a diamond is geometric is when its cut for use in rings and stuff

[@safir2241]

Thin Blue Line Well pyrite also has the same situation You find naturally geometric crystals alot in nature

[@ICaligvla]

@@safir2241 No. Pyrite can be found naturally raw, in the shape of a cube, where as diamond must be cut to even remotely have a geometric shape. Raw pyrite can be found in a cubic form where raw diamonds are only naturally found in a rigid irregular and more "natural" looking form.

[@parishna4882]

Yarr I'm a pyrite.. I'm stealing yer golds...

[@edrienmanzanero4081]

@@xxloopermanxx9699 ok boomer

[@unnecessary111]

go home todd

[@TheFIreBird24]

You're drunk, go home

[@malte1984]

ha ha... clever^^

[@nunsense9489]

the shy pyrite

[@ActionAdventureTwins]

awesome video very informative! we have found perfect cubes of this stuff in the abandoned mines we explore. one thing i would like to point out is that the the small shiny pieces in streambeds that people often say is pyrite or fools gold is most likely actually mica. the mineral labeled as pyrite at 3:23 is most likely mica unless the material being panned was just crushed and hasn't been exposed to oxygen but it looks like stream sediment. pyrite tends to rust very easily when exposed to oxygen and even quicker when exposed to water and becomes dull quickly but mica retains its shine forever even as it is broken down in streams to smaller and smaller pieces

[@onlirier2993]

waiting a few decades for nilered to lay hands on a particle collider so he can turn fool's gold into gold

[@video99couk]

When I was young, my parents had a real fireplace and would buy coal, it was my job to get some from the coal store each few days. I remember taking some lumps of coal to my chemistry teacher, which had fantastic streaks of gold colour in them. He got one of the lab technicians to test them, and sure enough, pyrites. I was quite disappointed.

[@TheBlarggle]

That's what he told you.

[@osirex5495]

@@TheBlarggle mean while he retired right after he left and bought 2 mansions, 5 supercars and is set for life

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

@@osirex5495 funny but that would require many many pounds of gold

[@hippieduck]

@@dickJohnsonpeter I mean you just killed the joke

[@kaironst2969]

@@dickJohnsonpeter r/woooosh

[@EthanThomson]

"there are no straight lines in nature" pyrite: am i a joke to you?

[@mastershooter64]

atoms and molecules vibrating due to thermal energy and the lines not being straight: am I a joke to you?

[@DumbBearPoster]

@@ApostleOfCats that's the point

[@jaffil4026]

@@ApostleOfCatsmaybe i am gay

[@envy461]

@@ApostleOfCats proof that everyone is gay

[@enbyfrogz6766]

@@ApostleOfCats *laughs in gay*

[@coreyhudson3484]

Pyrite and marcasite play some really interesting roles in the structure of carbon steels. Most of what I know about the two is from my time studying japanese knives as a sushi chef. I never really made the connection that they were fools gold

[@squishybrick]

This video inspired me to start a small collection of pyrite, and one of my prize pieces is one of those perfect cubes. And then I started just straight-up collecting pure elements from the periodic table, so that's been fun.

[@clicktuck]

Don't do Uranium

[@floresilla]

@@clicktuckwhy not, to complete the collection and finish it with style

[@Steph-mc7px]

"I just carefully shot it with a blowtorch"

[@luco663]

How do u carefully blowtorch something?

[@muddro420]

@@luco663 very carefully

[@luco663]

@@muddro420 lmao

[@das3610]

Anonymous 99 well how else would you do it carefully?

[@luco663]

@@das3610 true

[@petyarizova2906]

Other kids: playing in the sand on the playground Nile as a kid: digging the dirt on the playground looking for gold.

[@rushikeshgadewar3155]

Lmao 😂

[@persontheguyman223]

Wait so you havent i thought every kid digged up his backyard or playground or maybe even a sandbox to get gold, jewelry and treasure I must be alone then

[@jigglypuff2499]

@@persontheguyman223 same

[@ashrafhaider598]

I did exactly the same thing and thought I found gold

[@julien4305]

I used to bury my barbies and ask the neighbors' kids to be "the police". But yeah i dig around dirt trying to find minerals aswell

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

When I was a kid, in the late sixties, I had a subscription to some science thing for kids. One of the items they sent me was supposed to be a bit of gold ore...but it seems to be pyrite. I've been thinking that it might have both, but it's somewhat pointless to worry about, since whatever box it's in hasn't been opened since we moved more than ten years ago. It's tiny, too.

[@dwux]

10:45 Forbiden freshly gorund black pepper

[@trentHV]

Y E S

[@jomnch]

It's something you learn about at 3am when you should be sleeping

[@nakinajay]

Hahaha now that's gold right there.

[@nalyddoow9295]

Its 4:28 AM

[@onyourface207]

CrazyHobo ...and then, you can't get back to sleep because your mind is racing with information.

[@decatessara5029]

@kie only 1:12 AM for me

[@BlasianYT]

It's 3:04 AM right now

[@wandlpvonmurica3293]

In Germany we call it "Katzengold" = Cat gold.

[@spiromatik]

In Russia we call it "золото дураков" or "медный колчедан" - copper pyrite

[@seneca983]

@@spiromatik: ""медный колчедан" - copper pyrite" Isn't that a different mineral though? I don't actually speak Russian but I looked up these articles on the Russian language Wikipedia: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82 ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

Kenne ich

[@Luna_Spiritus]

Cool.

[@AmyAnnLand]

Damn pussy cats always getting fooled by fake gold. Suckers. I'm going to go make fun of my cats now.

[@Jus_Joj]

I've had a stone of this in my bedroom as a little trinket on a shelf for literal years and never thought to look into what it is, now I know! Thanks for the info, now if you don't mind I'm going to buy a bulk order of pyrite crystals myself and make my collection quite a bit larger than it was before

[@Wulff20ko]

I love when the chunk exploded in the pan, so the torch backed off, then it cut to a close up of the largest chunk and the torch slide back into frame with a smaller flame. It’s just hilarious to me

[@Linuxdirk]

4:29 I’d rather have one of those on my shelf to look at than a nugget of gold.

[@UItEnthusiast]

But what if you just took the gold, sold it, then bought like 500 of those? stonks

[@KidPrarchord95]

@@UItEnthusiast Take the gold and cubify it

[@SkyBooFast]

People domt just buy gold and show it off on the shelf 🤦🤦

[@KidPrarchord95]

@@SkyBooFast Yes they do

[@Fede_uyz]

Me too.... but just because i'd sell the gold or keep it in a safe, not just lying around

[@Anonymouthful]

My grandparents ranch is close to a massive lake, the beaches glitter in the sun with all fools gold in it.

[@securityism]

Fools beach.

[@mynamehasspacesinit8687]

@@securityism I thought that was Jersey Shore.

[@shankaka_99]

That’s super cool

[@TheNunWhoKnocks]

I’d still like to collect fools gold so I can look at all the pretty patterns.

[@Nehauon]

That sounds beautiful

[@0M9H4X_Neckbeard]

I've always loved Pyrite, since I was a kid. I collected the larger stones, I think it's cooler and prettier than real gold

[@NuisanceMan]

7:31 This totally looks like your ordinary red rocks that you see lying on the ground.

[@kristoffer2250]

Pyrite: exists Some merchant: *Aight.... Time to crash the stock market.*

[@fuckgoogle2554]

#FuckAmarti

[@Mr.Blue987]

i watched the whole video with the expectation of seeing one Spice and Wolf comment... thank you

[@kristoffer2250]

@@Mr.Blue987 *I was doing the same!*

[@vixen878]

@@Mr.Blue987 holo best girl

[@last-genrichtofen9360]

Who?

[@lazarvuksanovic5080]

Running in forest barefooted and stepping on that would be critical

[@blpanzer]

Still better than a bear-trap..

[@mm-hc6im]

critical damage

[@FRCN-th1kj]

What, your saying its *WORSE* THAN LEGOS

[@TheLiquidFox0323]

If you step on it wrong it could be... Supercritical

[@patatjuuuh9808]

Underrated comment

[@goblineergaming2995]

This is what kind of stuff school should be showing students, along side what we apparently need to learn. Show us a video of this, any further lessons are studying, and at the end of the week, a test based on the video watched. I don't study chemistry at school rn and I don't think I will, but this is amazing!

[@BigParadox]

I liked to make iron (II) sulfide, FeS, when I was young, by mixing proper amounts of sulfur powder and iron powder and heating it, the process of which was shown near the end of this video. That process in itself is very interesting; it looks as if the iron is burning with the oxygen in the air, but it is actually directly uniting with the sulfur, no oxygen is needed for this. Anyway, the even more fun part was of course when you took the resulting FeS and poured some hydrochloric acid on it, and got that reaction which produced hydrogen sulfide, H2S, which smelled like rotten eggs. One day I thought that it would be cool if you mixed powderized FeS with an acid that is in the form of a powder, so that no reaction takes place until you pour water on it. I would then have a stink bomb that I could easily "detonate" at will. The only acid that I could think of was citric acid, which my mother had in the kitchen. So I created that mixture and kept it in a small plastic container with a lid. I brought it to a friend of mine, and we decided to take a small local train into Stockholm. In that train we opened the container, poured some water into it, shook it, and put it into one of the trash cans in our wagon. There were other people in the wagon too. Nothing happened, no smell, and I was disappointed and thought that perhaps citric acid was too weak of an acid. We got off the train in Stockholm (the end station), and spent a few hours there having some fun, and then in the afternoon we went back to the station to catch the train back home. We were a bit late so as soon as we entered the wagon the train started to move. The wagon was totally empty, not a single person, and there was a terrible smell of rotten eggs. We had happened to get into the same wagon as we took earlier that day. Our little experiment had actually worked, although very slowly. Fortunately it was possible to walk from one wagon to another, so we quickly went to the next wagon to escape the horrible smell.

[@erictaylor5462]

11:30 Hydrogen sulfide is tricky as well. At toxic levels you can't smell it any more, so if you are in an environment with hydrogen sulfide gas and you can smell it, your safe. When you can't smell it any more, either the gas has cleared, or you are about to die.

[@hugoehhh]

huh..

[@stevenalexander6262]

oh wow

[@milkman9412]

Uh oh

[@Siphonife]

Epic plot twist of the century. Only one way to find out.

[@maytinpeh3682]

@@Siphonife welp he's dead

[@Blutzen]

I've always loved pyrite, even as a kid when I was told it was "fool's gold" I didn't have the reaction of "oh well then it's worthless" because it still looked really cool.

[@bishop8958]

I've recently developed a liking to pyrite because it's incredibly common, and is made up of two insanely useful elements.

[@closetgremlinnamedace]

Same

[@peterdinkler4950]

To try and explain the fracturing of the pyrite sample... When you heat up a mineral the sudden heating can cause deformation or dilation in the crystallography of the mass, and when a large enough temperature gradient exists in the sample, like in very insulative minerals like pyrite, or if the crystallography is just very weak, it causes internal stress to build up inside the sample, as the heated, and thus, dilated crystals separate from the lower temperature, normally sized crystals, or the rapid contraction or dilation just breaks the structure uniformly. This is also why ceramics and glasses crack if you heat them too much. If it gets hot enough, then yes, in some minerals, the crystallography "completely" breaks down, whether it be due to chemical processes, or just physical stress put on the crystallography, resulting in a slew of miniature crystals, usually resembling a powder, seen in the porous iron oxide layer. Tell me If I got something wrong, more educated folk. Thanks

[@Sleepyjew]

There was a loading dock at work with filler stone added for drainage. One sunny day I saw some serious glimmer coming from it and inspected to find that most of the stones were absolutely packed with pyrite. Since then I've been obsessed with collecting some of em. I smash em up, extract the cubic pyrite and have a little vial filled with it now! Fascinating stuff!

[@iseespiritshelp688]

I absolutely hated chemistry class in school I was always so bad at it. But your channel is so interesting and I came to really like it. Thanks for making these videos 🤗

[@shankaka_99]

I’m too young to have ever been in a chemistry class, but most of the time I have a lot of fun when I interact with scientific communities on the internet. That was a really long way of saying that yes, I agree 💀 Jesus Christ why do I talk so much

[@sairabanokazmi1150]

I don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but you don't put a full stop before a conjunction.

[@ililiililliliill9498]

Yeah same with me. I hated chemisty in school but now im watching these videos every time they come out.

[@igksulk8489]

@@sairabanokazmi1150 I’ve never heard the term grammar nazi

[@sairabanokazmi1150]

@@igksulk8489 It's a fairly popular term on the internet, it's what you call someone who constantly fixes your grammar in an argument to the point where it becomes annoying.

[@kafazyshorthop9909]

My dad is a Geologist, so we have this stuff around the house. I think it looks awesome. (Edit) I'm now in college working toward a major in Geology.

[@thegiantratthatmakesalloft9415]

Lie

[@LShaver947]

@@thegiantratthatmakesalloft9415 how do you know? Do you stalk them?

[@evannarendraangragani7508]

@@thegiantratthatmakesalloft9415 Deception

[@thegiantratthatmakesalloft9415]

@@evannarendraangragani7508 your not funny

[@Killz4Dayz]

@@gaskin6883 you're*

[@annesophieg-n]

i love minerals that make cubes!! it’s always so amazing to see!

[@ambermay7032]

One of my favorite rocks I own is a hunk of quartz and iron with the brittle type of pyrite spread over many of the surfaces. It's a beautiful mix of colors.

[@smallblue08]

Wow that perfectly formed cube on the rock looked beautiful

[@OhSoTiredMan]

It may be fools gold but its beauty is what fools people

[@cafeteriacat869]

Ghostwalker CIA nice quote

[@ochentaycincoalbricias]

I've got one of those cubes. Here they cost 2€

[@Thematic2177]

@Boomslang - not really. Pyrite very quickly tarnishes if you touch it.

[@ItMe12s]

Me : Thought it was gold Fool gold : YOU FOOL, You thought i was gold but no, IT WAS ME DI-

[@M3x1cola]

ha

[@thenotsofriendlybird957]

Thunder cross split attack!

[@LawrenceLS]

@@thenotsofriendlybird957 is this a jojo reference

[@thenotsofriendlybird957]

@@LawrenceLS Nahhh probably not

[@LawrenceLS]

@@thenotsofriendlybird957 ur name and pfp is amazing

[@geoffpaterson8208]

May I add an idea of how to differentiation small flakes of pyrite from similar-sized bits of gold when in the field? My experience as a geologist of many decades has taught me this. Use a strong magnifying eyepiece or similar; a magnifier such that you can easily see the grains. Take something very pointed like a pin, and push on the grain. Under the magnification you will observe pyrite yo crack or crumble, whilst gold will smoothly deform. The difference is very marked.

[@blazerocker1734]

Thanks for the upload. It was very useful/informative.

[@Kolateak_]

>Cheap >100 dollars Choose one

[@wahzawahzo2949]

@@dennyg3315 shut it, steven fanboye

[@Gurung137]

akvep1

[@wahzawahzo2949]

@@dennyg3315 lmao did you delete your playlist? Are you ashamed? Im sure you are, flexing with money to hide the shame. Thats hilarious

[@turidrowned]

Wahzawahzo 100 is nothing if you have any form of job.

[@hygrifkrrshinavask949]

one

[@WolfiiDog13]

The fact that it naturally forms nearly perfect cubes and is a semiconductor is already incredably cool and makes it better than gold to me

[@Howtoeatrocks]

I have a small sample of pyrite, absolutely love looking at it. Has some amazing flashes. A lot of gem collectors don't treat it correctly though and wonder why their sample cracks or flakes

[@lenahoppe5180]

I'm from a village that has a pyrit mine, which was closed 1992. But there is still a museum which shows the 140 years of work and im a tourguide there. The pyrit which was found there was Not always so cube like, but for me its interesting to learn more about it, to tell the people who visit the museum. And we also show cube like pyrit and explain the cause of its shape ;)

[@lordwalrus183]

15:00 Pyrite: My goals Hammer: My destructive habits

[@chrisclifford7080]

XD

[@fabizey]

Thats too relatable, my dude :/

[@qqidiwqehdfoiwqehoi1031]

Ha ha ha

[@hygrifkrrshinavask949]

That's hurts

[@000bHd000]

15:12 you good?

[@moritzschaferalthaus3461]

Minecraft Player Well,I guess

[@70lulatsch]

That escalated quickly :D

[@monowavy]

internalized anger.

[@HighMansx]

I love the pause hahaha

[@Schradermusic]

Everybody has a little HowToBasic inside them.

[@toddfiller4631]

I used to dig through my driveway gravel for fossils when I was a kid. Now I work at a quarry and pyrite is everywhere here if you know which rocks and layers to look. I love it.

[@joseph7858]

so amazing! thank you for explaing it to me! ☺️🍀

[@WangleLine]

15:12 Are you okay? We can talk if you want

[@user-nt6ru8ne7b]

Why is this comment the same as Minecraft Player’s comment from 3 months ago

[@LAppelDuVideo]

HowToNile

[@illumitabris]

I think he answered that prior to that moment. He was listing out why he was posting the video on the way to Japan as if responding to the people who ask why he ain't making videos in Japan. *SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH*

[@Adoredragoon]

@Evi1M4chine well in that case you would never be able to find out what it is

[@masonwoowoo]

@Evi1M4chine wow you must be really unpleasant to know, im glad i dont have to remember you exist afer this

[@tarrute]

When I was a kid, I found a large chunk of this, and I thought it was glowstone from Minecraft.

[@solostrings4056]

Did you keep it? Also where did you find it? Sorry, I study rocks cus I want to go into the mineralogy division of geology.

[@conturnplayscounturn6911]

Update me on this, i'm kinda interested too.

[@youngghozt7807]

When you were a kid 3 years ago? 🤣😂 jp bro

[@solostrings4056]

@@youngghozt7807 why three years ago? You realize his childhood may have ended before this video came out, right?

[@xxqino]

@@youngghozt7807 wait... Do you srsly base off people experience/age by their youtube accounts? Pathetic

[@edaedovald2268]

Grandpa had some pyrite on his shelf, I always liked the gold colour. Not cubic, but still very cool to look at. Kinda sad it got lost; most likely thrown out before renovations, after grandma passed a few years back. Grandpa had some other cool rocks as well. Now I'm determined to continue the legacy with a cool rock collection myself :D

[@jbob3276]

Much love from Rochester Minnesota.

[@henrydawson8096]

Hey, here's a fun fact: pyrite can be incorporated into fossils, making "golden" ammonites etc. Check it out

[@theisjepsen22]

That sounds cool, any videos on KZbin?

[@henrydawson8096]

Idk but I have one

[@ZagorTeNayebo]

Shiny Omanyte confirmed

[@godleveleldritchblast5257]

It's called a pseudomorph, it's when another rock takes over a previous form. Like opalization and pyritification, but it's not just local to opal or pyrite. Silication is when trees turn into glass.

[@nikocob1228]

Ah yes "Fool's Golden Ratio"

[@ciclon5682]

"in nature everything is irregular there are no perfect shapes" pyrite: haha cube go brrrr

[@Akumasama]

Columnar Basalt: "You can play a wicked game of WH40K on me."

[@BlueBox090]

Minecraft: *-a m I a j o k e t o y o u-*

[@shafa.n.t]

Bee hive: am I a joke to you?

[@Cinn_ical]

Bismuth had never seen such bullshit before

[@panzer.kampfwagen]

conpounds: *are we a joke to you*

[@Kays_Customs]

2:47 this is why back in the old days you test gold coins by biting them to see if they would bend or they would break

[@AdaMs910]

I already have learned more on chemistry from your channel and others, like Cody'sLab, than after 3 years of school

[@CPUSublimeHeart]

I just clicked this video instead of the Blender tutorial I was going to use... I’m not disappointed

[@jeremiahevans4175]

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents

[@Panzerbunn]

Another one that falls for the fool's gold.

[@leo79033]

Go learn blender, its fun

[@wickedresinshop]

As a Geology student, I can give you the simplest explanation for the different shapes of Pyrite and Gold. You can find Gold in nature as "native": the composition of it is purely Au (charged 0, so elemental form, as found on periodic table); pyrite is a sulfide salt instead (FeS2), so it crystallize, as every other salt, in geometric shapes 😊 in this case, pyrite forms cubes when pressure, concentrations of components and temperature are consistent, and other geometrical shapes when a change in its original contitions happens 😊 Hope to have written everything correctly, I come from Italy so English here is very hard to practice 🙈

[@wickedresinshop]

Moreover, conductivity changes from face to face, depending on how atoms are placed (a blowing example is graphite, which conducts electricity only parallel to the hexagonal carbon planes, while perpendicularly is insulating)

[@godleveleldritchblast5257]

Spot on.😁

[@eriven_tq]

Cool

[@alansmithee419]

6:55 I'd imagine FeS also has a different structure to FeS2, the most chnge being (slighlty) different bond lengths. Even a tiny change in that length would cause a *huge* pressure in an incompressible material, causing it to just push itself apart. In any case, it has to completely reorganise on the molecular level, so it's not surprising that it breaks at any rate.

[@learninggodot]

1:15 i donno bout you, but the perfection of that cube is intimidating

[@gs27777]

Someone gave me a pyrite cube as a child and it inspired my interest in material science and engineering, I still have that very cube in my collection. cool video on an underrated mineral

[@Lilith-uf2uy]

My parents talking about me: " There should be a reaction about now but I think its just really slow"

[@purplerose5424]

I’m confused, what does that mean?

[@-tododeku-7511]

@@purplerose5424 5:00 lol

[@joostdriesens3984]

Maybe heating it up by increasing the room temperature will accelerate the process and get her out of bed..

[@chocolatepudding1241]

My brother says that to me like everyday cause I have adhd and my brain processes speech slowly lol

[@connorperdicaro2953]

@@chocolatepudding1241 my adhd differs from yours because I process speech faster than a normal person would especially if you were to try and confuse the crap out of them

[@betweenthedimensions8315]

Can you do more on crystals and minerals please!? This is really cool.

[@CoIoneIPanic]

that perfect cube is just about the best thing i have seen on you tubby in a while. Is it possible to cause Iron Pyrite to make that shape through initiating some kind of reaction?

[@cyn0_]

"Careful" "Blowtorch" One of these things is not like the other

[@blueisnotgreen7258]

You look like a budget version of the bad guy from the movie karate kid

[@cyn0_]

Blueis Notgreen not me but how dare you insult lord Declan of the dance.

[@blueisnotgreen7258]

@@cyn0_lol with speech to text on a oneplus 3T

[@cyn0_]

Blueis Notgreen what?

[@blueisnotgreen7258]

@@cyn0_ you asked how, so I told you...speech to text on a oneplus3T lol

[@tex_c9499]

1:10 Most pyrite cubes are natural, but glued to a rock artificially to improve value.

[@darkind]

Thats just... Bad.

[@nomadpeopleallowed4491]

Perfectionists: *y tho*

[@djscottdog1]

So its (fools^2) . gold. since it was originally fools gold but the glueing onto the rock it to fool people to pay more for it

[@want-diversecontent3887]

DJ Scottdog Foolsquared

[@ralphralpherson9441]

Pyrite from the Glendon Pyrophyllite mine in North Carolina ALSO form perfect cubes. I know because I have mined several from that mine, they had (I dont know if they still do this) open house days at the quarry/mine pit and you could pay to go in and mine the accessory minerals to the pyrophyllite. (mainly huge pyrite cubes and twins, the occasional ultra-rare blue/green fluorite, and some trace iron ore minerals (hematite, magnetite, ilmenite , etc...) I have one cube from this location that is larger than my fist and damn near perfectly cubic. It's incredible how heavy it is. The twins that form here are amazing too, there will be two perfectly formed cubes joined at the most aesthetically pleasing angles. Pyrite is a fun mineral to hunt. I also know a much more accessible place to find smaller cubes on highway 321 out of blowing rock NC. I used to head down to NC all the time to collect minerals, a great state for rockhounds. Sadly, I don't get down that way very often anymore.

[@Chumblybum]

Love the perfect cube versions

[@damianich4824]

"Semiconductor materials are used pretty extensively in the electronics industry" Haha understatement of the century 😂

[@lavendersugar143]

"As a kid I can sometimes remember looking through dirt" hell yeah bro you got it that's how to live life right there

[@NashTheGreat]

Kids who was born prior to 2010 know how to play outdoor

[@vincentdreemurr]

@@NashTheGreat ok boomer

[@juancit4254]

rootbeergoat i feel smart every time I understand a single sentence he says

[@Reality_Gamer_2]

@@NashTheGreat i remember the good ol days

[@pointyorb]

That layered thing looks really cool, you should keep it.

[@artdamphousse7154]

You did a good video o this mineral, you should do more on different minerals, and you only tipped the iceberg with pyrite, as there are many different varieties of pyrite, even arseno-pyrite that contains arsenic, chalcopyrite with multi colors from iridescence, pyrrhotite, and others.

[@Ballacha]

The mini explosions is more likely due to different thermal expansion rate between FeS2 and FeS.

[@SiriusArc7]

You might not believe, I was about to go to bed(it's 3:48AM in Japan) but I found your latest video so I will stay up little more late to say this. "ようこそNileRed! 日本を楽しんで！"

[@bluejayechaosenbybirb5865]

I can almost read what this says... I'm learning Japanese

[@donpalmera]

@@bluejayechaosenbybirb5865 If you can't read that already you'll be dead before you're literate.

[@BothHands1]

donpalmera いじめないで 覚えることはあんまり難しくないのに。。 どこに住んでるの？ 私って、長崎です いつか来てねー

[@donpalmera]

@@BothHands1 おいら春日部に住んでるぞ。

[@bluejayechaosenbybirb5865]

@@donpalmera I mean, I'm only 15... I have time to learn it. But Japanese is complicated with hiragana and katakana and other freaking SPECIAL CHARACTERS for SO MANY WORDS

[@ZefDavenport]

Pyrite is one of my favourite minerals, and yeah, here in Spain it's always sold in cube form, even when it has impurities.

[@localdrugseller6431]

I remember when my dad was in some sort of gold rush hobby he got from those american documentaries about modern gold sifters. He used to bring buckets of soil from euphrates river and sift it at home. We DID find some gold eventually in time. Around few miligrams (5-6 particles) but what was more interesting was the stone inside the soil. I remember seeing small shiny yellow flakes in it and my gold hunting expert dad immediately recognized it was pyrite.

[@QuantumFluxable]

My suggestion for the next mineral video: Corundum. It has plenty of uses for tool blades, forms beautiful crystals like Sapphire, and it flouresces in UV light.

[@DANGJOS]

Yes! Sapphire is my favorite gem/mineral! Apparently it only fluoresces if it's from a natural source

[@markolazarevic4209]

2:47 Nooooooo. You've crushed my dreams... Idk I have a thing for pyrite. I could have a ton of it and still If I found a beautiful peice I would have taken it anyways.

[@NileRed]

He needed to be sacrificed for the greater good.

[@codyv308]

For SCIENCE!

[@1224chrisng]

15:05

[@ollie9518]

@@NileRed For the greater good...

[@Ronirvan]

There is also a very cool mineral called Stibnite, it has some dark metallic luster; check it out.

[@aalastair]

I have a pyrite collection, I've loved it since I was seven and I still love it so much it makes me happy :) it's so pretty

[@TThoMusic]

I would love to see you take a look at common toxic/carcinogenic compounds found throughout homes and offices. For example, you could take a look at common VOCs (volatile off-gassing compounds) such as ammonia and bleach (common cleaning agents). Or perhaps you could explain in detail what chemicals/compounds are released into the air from printing processes (bonus points for talking about 3D printers and UFPs (ultra-fine particles). Even just the act of cooking produces airborne compounds. It would be very interesting to know exactly what these chemicals are and how they could have impacts on our health and well-being.

[@michaelrose93]

It's not generally found in native form, but bismuth is interesting. Beautiful crystals, loads of interesting properties. Least radioactive of the radioactive elements, (longer half life than the universe) dimagnetic, etc.

[@jonr1193]

michaelrose93 There’s also Tellurium-128, which is the second most common form that it takes on Earth, which has a half-life of 2.2x10^24 years, or 160x the length that the universe has existed so far. Bismuth-209’s half-life is still really impressive, though!

[@jonr1193]

Anticonny Agreed! Each bit of chemistry and physics is amazing, and I’d love to see a video on either of the two!

[@kadergumus2598]

@@jonr1193 Thorium. ²³²Th is the least active for an _actinide._ Half life: 1.405.10¹⁰ years. ²³²Th > Age of the universe. (~1.38.10¹⁰ years)

[@zhianxu7992]

yay he made a video about it

[@daivomjoshi8677]

Please make a video on mineral "Quartz". .. Its the most abundant mineral and forms beautiful crystal ...it also offers PIEZOELECTRICITY...

[@daivomjoshi8677]

SiO2 QUARTZ...MAKE A VIDEO ON IT

[@KnowledgePerformance7]

Woah calm down there

[@rocknexus5749]

@@KnowledgePerformance7 I don't think you understand. QUARTZ... he needs to make a video on it QUARTZ .. *QUARTZ. .*

[@among-us-99999]

Quartz is the absolutely most boring mineral. Physically, optically and chemically. Even calcite would be more exciting.

[@moth.monster]

@@among-us-99999I think quartz oscillators are pretty neat

[@FLUXXEUS]

1:08 I was told at a young age that "right angles don't exist in nature"... Meanwhile here's a cube 😂

[@rembautimes8808]

The amazing thing is that. Chemistry KZbin video garnered 3 million views. Testament to Niles attention to detail and calm way of explaining complex concepts

[@ZirconGames]

Piryte was actually used a lot to make radio frequency diodes, used in foxhole radios or also called "crystal radios", germanium and galena were also used. you should try that lol. It would be a great exploration of a "different realm".

[@ZirconGames]

If you want more information you can search for "cat whisker detector"

[@NileRed]

Ill read a bit more about it. I saw a bit of info about it, but i didnt really understand how it worked.

[@TheDimsml]

@@NileRed I think that the Wiki page on Schottky diodes might be a good starting point. I was trying to find out how it might work and I went in the wrong direction, thinking that it must work like modern semiconductors, where you need two types (N and P) to form a junction. But S. diodes are made from a semiconductor - metal junction. It does sound like a cat whisker detector to me! We have a natural crystal of galena or pyrite and some part of it has impurities so it becomes a semiconductor and then you make a diode by pushing a metal whisker into it. May I also suggest you look into metal rectifiers? They work on the same principle, but can be produced on an industrial scale, since one does not have to hunt for the right point.

[@risvegliato]

@@@NileRed Its still not entirely understood how it works, but semiconductors like galena and pyrites can be used to make cats-whisker diode detectors. Its a surface phenomenon, unlike the modern types of semiconductor devices that use silicon or germanium. I think the very early point-contact transistors also worked this way, until they were quickly superseded by junction-type semiconductor devices.

[@johnpossum556]

@@NileRed It works on AM signals only because it forms a diode. A diode can do the "detecting" by removing the high frequency part of the signal thus leaving behind only the low frequency component which is the audio. Generally a safety pin works real well in contact with the crystal. It has to have a small, narrow point. This article should tell you most everything you need to know. One last thing, you need a special low-voltage earpiece to listen to the resulting signal because these sets have no battery or added wall power. Good luck! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector

[@dio5371]

this channel is great i learn more from a single video than what i would learn in a year at school

[@toffeentea6064]

Person Here However, about 70% of what you learn from KZbin would either be useless or false.

[@raccoonking3877]

That's what happens when you don't pay attention...

[@johndanielsaffold428]

very true

[@ren-pf6mr]

@The coo - king i have to take everything but a social studies course next year

[@qqidiwqehdfoiwqehoi1031]

I agree

[@sakurafeathers691]

Despite its commonality, Iron Pyrite seems to have such potential in looks. It looks really pretty, and I'd take it as my wedding ring lol

[@orangewasif]

you mean commoness

[@SnowDownatHighNoon]

I really want to see you do a video on Caesium

[@williamjarvis7949]

8:18 is really neat! You formed an artificial reaction rim. It's a fairly common thing to find in plutonic rocks as the chemical environments of magma reservoirs change. Some granite countertops show the feldspar to hematite transition quite well.

[@matthewcox7985]

So Hematite and Feldspar have a Plutonic relationship? 😁

[@pedrovargas2181]

Sounds interesting, but would be understandable in actual English.

[@t8ertot767]

3:08 big chungus

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[@nonexistentboi]

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[@nonexistentboi]

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[@blueback999]

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[@gunfrigginbelievable6092]

I work in an underground Mo mine where the orebodies have quite a bit of pyrite mixed in with the moly slips. New guys or visitors will come down all the time and pick up a piece and bring it to either the operator that's training them or their tour guide, they'll act amazed and say "Oh wow looks like you found some leaverite!" and when they ask if it valuable the answer is always "No, leave 'er right there." as they throw it over their shoulder followed by a explanation of what pyrite is and them giving the "hammer test" which an be seen in this video. If it shatters and doesn't flatten it's pyrite. Visible quantities of gold are also extremely rare at least in underground mining.