What is Fool's Gold?

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  • @Joey_Hughes
    @Joey_Hughes 5 років тому +3939

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

    • @Wockes
      @Wockes 5 років тому +157

      and eating the dirt

    • @dinosoarskill17
      @dinosoarskill17 5 років тому +141

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

    • @dakshtheidiot
      @dakshtheidiot 5 років тому +69

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

    • @johncenaplayingstarcraft9580
      @johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 5 років тому +40

      i found smelly chocolate :)

    • @weebyes2951
      @weebyes2951 5 років тому +8

      when i was a kid i never played outside lol

  • @elbarto8282
    @elbarto8282 5 років тому +14755

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

    • @parishna4882
      @parishna4882 5 років тому +843

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

    • @Karldin83
      @Karldin83 5 років тому +422

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

    • @sdoaiza
      @sdoaiza 5 років тому +486

      bismuth is crazy too

    • @akbarrmd7714
      @akbarrmd7714 5 років тому +271

      "Perfectly balanced. Like all things should be"

    • @FluffyFractalshard
      @FluffyFractalshard 5 років тому +256

      sacred geometry is everywhere in nature

  • @yassminebouhouch60
    @yassminebouhouch60 5 років тому +3349

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

  • @aurum606
    @aurum606 3 роки тому +1157

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

  • @video99couk
    @video99couk 4 роки тому +4087

    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
      @TheBlarggle 4 роки тому +270

      That's what he told you.

    • @osirex5495
      @osirex5495 3 роки тому +432

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

    • @dickJohnsonpeter
      @dickJohnsonpeter 3 роки тому +68

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

    • @hippieduck
      @hippieduck 3 роки тому +179

      @@dickJohnsonpeter I mean you just killed the joke

    • @kaironst2969
      @kaironst2969 3 роки тому +17

      @@dickJohnsonpeter r/woooosh

  • @Linuxdirk
    @Linuxdirk 4 роки тому +879

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

    • @UItEnthusiast
      @UItEnthusiast 4 роки тому +89

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

    • @KidPrarchord95
      @KidPrarchord95 4 роки тому +40

      @@UItEnthusiast Take the gold and cubify it

    • @SkyBooFast
      @SkyBooFast 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @KidPrarchord95
      @KidPrarchord95 4 роки тому +72

      @@SkyBooFast Yes they do

    • @Fede_uyz
      @Fede_uyz 4 роки тому +8

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

  • @orbitalpotato9940
    @orbitalpotato9940 5 років тому +10119

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

    • @Paradox_Edge
      @Paradox_Edge 5 років тому +315

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

    • @Vladimir_Kv
      @Vladimir_Kv 5 років тому +225

      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
      @kasai7272 5 років тому +71

      INCONCEIVABLE

    • @ocnarf40
      @ocnarf40 5 років тому +144

      *THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK*

    • @crewcut
      @crewcut 5 років тому +101

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

  • @Nedskiee
    @Nedskiee 3 роки тому +574

    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
      @BigParadox 2 роки тому +17

      Very cool, thanks for sharing this story!

    • @AMan-xz7tx
      @AMan-xz7tx 2 роки тому +16

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

    • @hydropage2855
      @hydropage2855 2 роки тому +6

      RIP your lungs

    • @unoreverse-qe5dk
      @unoreverse-qe5dk Рік тому +3

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

    • @LawsOnJoystick
      @LawsOnJoystick Рік тому +2

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

  • @parishna4882
    @parishna4882 5 років тому +4106

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

  • @EthanThomson
    @EthanThomson 4 роки тому +4887

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

    • @mastershooter64
      @mastershooter64 3 роки тому +271

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

    • @DumbBearPoster
      @DumbBearPoster 3 роки тому +74

      @@ApostleOfCats that's the point

    • @jaffil4026
      @jaffil4026 3 роки тому +208

      @@ApostleOfCatsmaybe i am gay

    • @envy461
      @envy461 3 роки тому +132

      @@ApostleOfCats proof that everyone is gay

    • @enbyfrogz6766
      @enbyfrogz6766 3 роки тому +72

      @@ApostleOfCats *laughs in gay*

  • @ICaligvla
    @ICaligvla 5 років тому +8937

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

    • @reapeashooter2
      @reapeashooter2 5 років тому +716

      Bismuth:

    • @safir2241
      @safir2241 5 років тому +269

      Diamond:

    • @ICaligvla
      @ICaligvla 5 років тому +630

      @@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
      @safir2241 5 років тому +61

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

    • @ICaligvla
      @ICaligvla 5 років тому +321

      @@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.

  • @FlawlessRhythmGG
    @FlawlessRhythmGG 2 роки тому +99

    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.

  • @iseespiritshelp688
    @iseespiritshelp688 3 роки тому +3904

    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
      @shankaka_99 3 роки тому +47

      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
      @sairabanokazmi1150 3 роки тому +32

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

    • @ililiililliliill9498
      @ililiililliliill9498 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @igksulk8489
      @igksulk8489 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @sairabanokazmi1150
      @sairabanokazmi1150 3 роки тому +19

      @@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.

  • @Anonymouthful
    @Anonymouthful 4 роки тому +297

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

    • @Securityism
      @Securityism 3 роки тому +32

      Fools beach.

    • @mynamehasspacesinit8687
      @mynamehasspacesinit8687 3 роки тому +14

      @@Securityism I thought that was Jersey Shore.

    • @shankaka_99
      @shankaka_99 3 роки тому +9

      That’s super cool

    • @TheNunWhoKnocks
      @TheNunWhoKnocks 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @Nehauon
      @Nehauon 3 роки тому +5

      That sounds beautiful

  • @Steph-mc7px
    @Steph-mc7px 5 років тому +1809

    "I just carefully shot it with a blowtorch"

    • @luco663
      @luco663 5 років тому +45

      How do u carefully blowtorch something?

    • @muddro420
      @muddro420 4 роки тому +103

      @@luco663 very carefully

    • @luco663
      @luco663 4 роки тому +20

      @@muddro420 lmao

    • @das3610
      @das3610 4 роки тому +15

      Anonymous 99 well how else would you do it carefully?

    • @luco663
      @luco663 4 роки тому +8

      @@das3610 true

  • @dressedinwhite3673
    @dressedinwhite3673 3 роки тому +360

    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
      @janedoe7666 3 роки тому +13

      ja, das ist richtig

    • @Securityism
      @Securityism 3 роки тому +27

      I want cat gold.

    • @DEV-rw7eu
      @DEV-rw7eu 3 роки тому +5

      @@Securityism NO. you get cait bat

    • @sharron74
      @sharron74 3 роки тому

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

    • @Kissalege
      @Kissalege 3 роки тому +9

      Same in finland. Katin kulta

  • @wandlpvonmurica3293
    @wandlpvonmurica3293 5 років тому +692

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

    • @spiromatik
      @spiromatik 4 роки тому +32

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

    • @seneca983
      @seneca983 4 роки тому +12

      @@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
      @yasyasmarangoz3577 4 роки тому +4

      Kenne ich

    • @Luna_Spiritus
      @Luna_Spiritus 4 роки тому +1

      Cool.

    • @AmyAnnLand
      @AmyAnnLand 4 роки тому +42

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

  • @lyrilmtv2428
    @lyrilmtv2428 5 років тому +6069

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

    • @lewisj.9903
      @lewisj.9903 4 роки тому +134

      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
      @asa-ks1vf 4 роки тому +462

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

    • @lewisj.9903
      @lewisj.9903 4 роки тому +40

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

    • @sswpp8908
      @sswpp8908 4 роки тому +374

      Gold = fool's pyrite

    • @lyrilmtv2428
      @lyrilmtv2428 4 роки тому +23

      @@sswpp8908 lol

  • @omomolol9636
    @omomolol9636 3 роки тому +1235

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

    • @justyouraveragemartian783
      @justyouraveragemartian783 3 роки тому +175

      it isnt called fools gold for nothing!

    • @Anthracite_coal
      @Anthracite_coal 3 роки тому +65

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

    • @MotivationAdonis
      @MotivationAdonis 2 роки тому +19

      @@Anthracite_coal yeah pretty sure it's radioactive

    • @majesto8487
      @majesto8487 2 роки тому +88

      @@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
      @Animaster89 2 роки тому +40

      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

  • @ActionAdventureTwins
    @ActionAdventureTwins 2 роки тому +47

    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

  • @petyarizova2906
    @petyarizova2906 3 роки тому +3244

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

    • @rushikeshgadewar3155
      @rushikeshgadewar3155 3 роки тому +9

      Lmao 😂

    • @persontheguyman223
      @persontheguyman223 3 роки тому +119

      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
      @jigglypuff2499 3 роки тому +9

      @@persontheguyman223 same

    • @ashrafhaider598
      @ashrafhaider598 3 роки тому +15

      I did exactly the same thing and thought I found gold

    • @julien4305
      @julien4305 3 роки тому +28

      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

  • @kafazyshorthop9909
    @kafazyshorthop9909 4 роки тому +2169

    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.

  • @Blutzen
    @Blutzen 6 років тому +300

    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
      @bishop8958 5 років тому +2

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

  • @squishybrick
    @squishybrick 2 роки тому +19

    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
      @clicktuck Рік тому +1

      Don't do Uranium

    • @floresilla
      @floresilla Рік тому

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

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 5 років тому +346

    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.

  • @jomnch
    @jomnch 5 років тому +2055

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

    • @nakinajay
      @nakinajay 5 років тому +22

      Hahaha now that's gold right there.

    • @nalyddoow9295
      @nalyddoow9295 5 років тому +20

      Its 4:28 AM

    • @onyourface207
      @onyourface207 5 років тому +9

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

    • @decatessara5029
      @decatessara5029 5 років тому +1

      @kie only 1:12 AM for me

    • @BlasianYT
      @BlasianYT 5 років тому +5

      It's 3:04 AM right now

  • @Lazarus1897
    @Lazarus1897 5 років тому +260

    Running in forest barefooted and stepping on that would be critical

    • @blpanzer
      @blpanzer 5 років тому +23

      Still better than a bear-trap..

    • @mm-hc6im
      @mm-hc6im 4 роки тому +6

      critical damage

    • @FRCN-th1kj
      @FRCN-th1kj 4 роки тому +5

      What, your saying its *WORSE* THAN LEGOS

    • @TheLiquidFox0323
      @TheLiquidFox0323 4 роки тому +10

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

    • @patatjuuuh9808
      @patatjuuuh9808 4 роки тому +4

      Underrated comment

  • @coreyhudson3484
    @coreyhudson3484 Рік тому +14

    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

  • @anorak9383
    @anorak9383 4 роки тому +6244

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

  • @smallblue08
    @smallblue08 6 років тому +526

    Wow that perfectly formed cube on the rock looked beautiful

    • @OhSoTiredMan
      @OhSoTiredMan 6 років тому +58

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

    • @cafeteriacat869
      @cafeteriacat869 6 років тому +3

      Ghostwalker CIA nice quote

    • @ochentaycincoalbricias
      @ochentaycincoalbricias 6 років тому +4

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

    • @Thematic2177
      @Thematic2177 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @henrydawson8096
    @henrydawson8096 4 роки тому +255

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

    • @theisjepsen22
      @theisjepsen22 3 роки тому

      That sounds cool, any videos on UA-cam?

    • @henrydawson8096
      @henrydawson8096 3 роки тому +2

      Idk but I have one

    • @ZagorTeNayebo
      @ZagorTeNayebo 3 роки тому +6

      Shiny Omanyte confirmed

    • @godleveleldritchblast5257
      @godleveleldritchblast5257 2 роки тому +8

      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
      @nikocob1228 2 роки тому +2

      Ah yes "Fool's Golden Ratio"

  • @Jus_Joj
    @Jus_Joj 3 роки тому +7

    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

  • @maggiemaggie7641
    @maggiemaggie7641 3 роки тому +93

    " 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

  • @kristoffer2250
    @kristoffer2250 4 роки тому +552

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

    • @fuckgoogle2554
      @fuckgoogle2554 4 роки тому +10

      #FuckAmarti

    • @Mr.Blue987
      @Mr.Blue987 4 роки тому +20

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

    • @kristoffer2250
      @kristoffer2250 4 роки тому +4

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

    • @vixen878
      @vixen878 4 роки тому +5

      @@Mr.Blue987 holo best girl

    • @last-genrichtofen9360
      @last-genrichtofen9360 3 роки тому

      Who?

  • @WolfiiDog13
    @WolfiiDog13 3 роки тому +191

    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

  • @onlirier2993
    @onlirier2993 2 роки тому +75

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

  • @wickedresinshop
    @wickedresinshop 4 роки тому +44

    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
      @wickedresinshop 4 роки тому +5

      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
      @godleveleldritchblast5257 2 роки тому +1

      Spot on.😁

    • @Aven_colonthree
      @Aven_colonthree Рік тому +1

      Cool

  • @gs27777
    @gs27777 4 роки тому +72

    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

  • @WangleLine
    @WangleLine 5 років тому +909

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

    • @user-nt6ru8ne7b
      @user-nt6ru8ne7b 5 років тому +56

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

    • @LAppelDuVideo
      @LAppelDuVideo 5 років тому +42

      HowToNile

    • @illumitabris
      @illumitabris 5 років тому +30

      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
      @Adoredragoon 5 років тому +10

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

    • @masonwoowoo
      @masonwoowoo 5 років тому +23

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

  • @TheEudaemonicPlague
    @TheEudaemonicPlague Рік тому +9

    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.

  • @000bHd000
    @000bHd000 6 років тому +748

    15:12
    you good?

    • @moritzschaferalthaus3461
      @moritzschaferalthaus3461 6 років тому +19

      Minecraft Player Well,I guess

    • @70lulatsch
      @70lulatsch 6 років тому +82

      That escalated quickly :D

    • @monowavy
      @monowavy 6 років тому +80

      internalized anger.

    • @HighMansx
      @HighMansx 6 років тому +51

      I love the pause hahaha

    • @Schradermusic
      @Schradermusic 6 років тому +99

      Everybody has a little HowToBasic inside them.

  • @CPUSublimeHeart
    @CPUSublimeHeart 3 роки тому +83

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

    • @jeremiahevans4175
      @jeremiahevans4175 3 роки тому +2

      There are no mistakes, just happy accidents

    • @Panzerbunn
      @Panzerbunn 3 роки тому

      Another one that falls for the fool's gold.

    • @leo79033
      @leo79033 3 роки тому

      Go learn blender, its fun

  • @Kolateak_
    @Kolateak_ 5 років тому +1262

    >Cheap
    >100 dollars
    Choose one

    • @wahzawahzo2949
      @wahzawahzo2949 4 роки тому +138

      @@dennyg3315 shut it, steven fanboye

    • @Gurung137
      @Gurung137 4 роки тому +2

      akvep1

    • @wahzawahzo2949
      @wahzawahzo2949 4 роки тому +88

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

    • @turidrowned
      @turidrowned 4 роки тому +18

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

    • @hygrifkrrshinavask949
      @hygrifkrrshinavask949 4 роки тому

      one

  • @0M9H4X_Neckbeard
    @0M9H4X_Neckbeard 3 роки тому +11

    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

  • @lordwalrus183
    @lordwalrus183 6 років тому +251

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

  • @Ballacha
    @Ballacha 6 років тому +50

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

  • @tex_c9499
    @tex_c9499 6 років тому +104

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

    • @darkind
      @darkind 4 роки тому +4

      Thats just... Bad.

    • @nomadpeopleallowed4491
      @nomadpeopleallowed4491 4 роки тому +6

      Perfectionists: *y tho*

    • @djscottdog1
      @djscottdog1 4 роки тому +4

      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
      @want-diversecontent3887 4 роки тому +1

      DJ Scottdog
      Foolsquared

  • @BigParadox
    @BigParadox 2 роки тому +8

    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.

  • @SiriusArc7
    @SiriusArc7 6 років тому +288

    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
      @bluejayechaosenbybirb5865 6 років тому +30

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

    • @donpalmera
      @donpalmera 6 років тому +8

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

    • @BothHands1
      @BothHands1 6 років тому +5

      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
      @donpalmera 6 років тому +3

      @@BothHands1 おいら春日部に住んでるぞ。

    • @bluejayechaosenbybirb5865
      @bluejayechaosenbybirb5865 6 років тому +17

      @@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

  • @ItMe12s
    @ItMe12s 5 років тому +267

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

  • @tarrute
    @tarrute 4 роки тому +175

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

    • @solostrings4056
      @solostrings4056 3 роки тому +6

      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
      @conturnplayscounturn6911 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @youngghozt7807
      @youngghozt7807 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @solostrings4056
      @solostrings4056 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @xxqino
      @xxqino 3 роки тому

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

  • @dwux
    @dwux 2 роки тому +7

    10:45 Forbiden freshly gorund black pepper

  • @ciclon5682
    @ciclon5682 3 роки тому +579

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

    • @Akumasama
      @Akumasama 3 роки тому +21

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

    • @CheezyBois998
      @CheezyBois998 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @shafa.n.t
      @shafa.n.t 3 роки тому +7

      Bee hive: am I a joke to you?

    • @Cinn_ical
      @Cinn_ical 3 роки тому +10

      Bismuth had never seen such bullshit before

    • @panzer.kampfwagen
      @panzer.kampfwagen 2 роки тому

      conpounds: *are we a joke to you*

  • @dio5371
    @dio5371 6 років тому +195

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

    • @toffeentea6064
      @toffeentea6064 6 років тому +6

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

    • @raccoonking3877
      @raccoonking3877 6 років тому +2

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

    • @johndanielsaffold428
      @johndanielsaffold428 6 років тому

      very true

    • @ren-pf6mr
      @ren-pf6mr 6 років тому

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

    • @qqidiwqehdfoiwqehoi1031
      @qqidiwqehdfoiwqehoi1031 6 років тому

      I agree

  • @QuantumFluxable
    @QuantumFluxable 6 років тому +28

    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
      @DANGJOS 6 років тому +3

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

  • @goblineergaming2995
    @goblineergaming2995 2 роки тому

    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!

  • @michaelrose93
    @michaelrose93 6 років тому +49

    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
      @jonr1193 6 років тому +6

      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
      @jonr1193 6 років тому +2

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

    • @kadergumus2598
      @kadergumus2598 5 років тому +2

      @@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
      @zhianxu7992 5 років тому

      yay he made a video about it

  • @cyn0_
    @cyn0_ 5 років тому +509

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

    • @blueisnotgreen7258
      @blueisnotgreen7258 5 років тому +5

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

    • @cyn0_
      @cyn0_ 5 років тому +12

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

    • @blueisnotgreen7258
      @blueisnotgreen7258 5 років тому +2

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

    • @cyn0_
      @cyn0_ 5 років тому +1

      Blueis Notgreen what?

    • @blueisnotgreen7258
      @blueisnotgreen7258 5 років тому +2

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

  • @Lilith-uf2uy
    @Lilith-uf2uy 4 роки тому +150

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

    • @purplerose5424
      @purplerose5424 3 роки тому

      I’m confused, what does that mean?

    • @-tododeku-7511
      @-tododeku-7511 3 роки тому +1

      @@purplerose5424 5:00 lol

    • @joostdriesens3984
      @joostdriesens3984 3 роки тому +8

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

    • @chocolatepudding1241
      @chocolatepudding1241 3 роки тому

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

    • @connorperdicaro2953
      @connorperdicaro2953 3 роки тому

      @@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

  • @IroquoisPliskin86
    @IroquoisPliskin86 2 роки тому +1

    There's something kind of unsettling to me to see a basically perfect cube in nature.

  • @daivomjoshi8677
    @daivomjoshi8677 6 років тому +279

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

    • @daivomjoshi8677
      @daivomjoshi8677 6 років тому +7

      SiO2 QUARTZ...MAKE A VIDEO ON IT

    • @KnowledgePerformance7
      @KnowledgePerformance7 6 років тому +30

      Woah calm down there

    • @rocknexus5749
      @rocknexus5749 6 років тому +42

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

    • @among-us-99999
      @among-us-99999 6 років тому +13

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

    • @moth.monster
      @moth.monster 6 років тому +18

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

  • @lavendersugar143
    @lavendersugar143 6 років тому +66

    "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
      @NashTheGreat 5 років тому +17

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

    • @vincentdreemurr
      @vincentdreemurr 4 роки тому +2

      @@NashTheGreat ok boomer

    • @juancit4254
      @juancit4254 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @Reality_Gamer_2
      @Reality_Gamer_2 2 роки тому

      @@NashTheGreat i remember the good ol days

  • @markolazarevic4209
    @markolazarevic4209 6 років тому +448

    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
      @NileRed  6 років тому +118

      He needed to be sacrificed for the greater good.

    • @codyv308
      @codyv308 6 років тому +22

      For SCIENCE!

    • @1224chrisng
      @1224chrisng 6 років тому +16

      15:05

    • @ollie9518
      @ollie9518 6 років тому +7

      @@NileRed For the greater good...

    • @Ronirvan
      @Ronirvan 6 років тому +3

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

  • @Wulff20ko
    @Wulff20ko 3 роки тому +43

    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

  • @kennethwilliams6916
    @kennethwilliams6916 4 роки тому +21

    I have been binge watching all of these videos! Thanks Red! Many more hours worth of what I consider educational videos!.. also my 8 year old daughter loves these and now had gone from wanting to be a ballerina to a veterinarian to anything like what you do.

    • @slushpuppie19
      @slushpuppie19 2 роки тому

      Super cool! I wish I appreciated science more as a kid!

  • @ZirconGames
    @ZirconGames 6 років тому +76

    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
      @ZirconGames 6 років тому +2

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

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  6 років тому +15

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

    • @TheDimsml
      @TheDimsml 6 років тому +1

      @@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
      @risvegliato 6 років тому

      @@@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
      @johnpossum556 6 років тому

      @@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

  • @meikkiris
    @meikkiris 4 роки тому +102

    fun fact: fools gold is called katinkulta, or cats gold in finland!

    • @zaidzehn
      @zaidzehn 4 роки тому +16

      Heeyy! Same it's called katzengold= cats gold in Germany.

    • @npetrikov3801
      @npetrikov3801 4 роки тому +9

      another funny thing is inkulta looks a lot like the word inculta wich in spanish means uncultered but in feminine form "inculto" is used for men im sorry im not so good at english but i think it was kinda fun since is "fools" gold

    • @geradosolusyon511
      @geradosolusyon511 3 роки тому +1

      In katinkulta which is gold and which is the cat?

    • @hippieduck
      @hippieduck 3 роки тому +1

      Same in Sweden: "Kattguld"

    • @Batista77387
      @Batista77387 3 роки тому

      Really

  • @FLUXXEUS
    @FLUXXEUS 2 роки тому +7

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

  • @williamjarvis7949
    @williamjarvis7949 4 роки тому +28

    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
      @matthewcox7985 4 роки тому +2

      So Hematite and Feldspar have a Plutonic relationship? 😁

    • @pedrovargas2181
      @pedrovargas2181 2 роки тому

      Sounds interesting, but would be understandable in actual English.

  • @among-us-99999
    @among-us-99999 6 років тому +477

    I would love to see Silicon carbide!

    • @Muonium1
      @Muonium1 6 років тому +13

      ya he could make homemade LED with it.

    • @Diamonddavej
      @Diamonddavej 6 років тому +8

      The mineral name is Mossanite, extremely rare on Earth, mostly found in a few meteorites and naturally on Earth in a few places such at the far northern Urals, Russia.

    • @daemoh3696
      @daemoh3696 6 років тому +3

      @@Diamonddavej
      *Moissanite

    • @kmarasin
      @kmarasin 6 років тому +3

      Boron Nitride

    • @crominion6045
      @crominion6045 6 років тому +1

      SiC is great (when crushed to small particles and those particles are bonded together) for sharpening knives. 👍

  • @damianich4824
    @damianich4824 4 роки тому +192

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

  • @just_some_random_dude8145
    @just_some_random_dude8145 3 роки тому +3

    This dude has cured my boredom his videos are interesting and entertaining

  • @bene20080
    @bene20080 6 років тому +242

    you explain the chipping of pyrite while warming due to the chemical decomposition and than resulting increased inner gas pressure. 6:40
    But have you thought about thermal stresses, that result in material failure? Pyrite is quite brittle and it does not only crack at the hot spots, but even in spots where pyrite could not have been at its decomposition temperature. Since, pyrite is a bad conductor, it would make sense to also be a bad thermal conductor, which would mean that it had big temperature gradients and thus because it tends to expand more than copper on heat (link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03048745) you get big strains, which result in big stresses and parts chipping away.
    This theory would also make sense to the fact, that you smaller block does not break apart anymore. You heated that on more sides, so the temperatur got more evened out. Also the block is smaller, which means, that the temperaute gradient was propably smaller too. Or in other words. Maybe try heating the pyrite slower and more uniform.
    On a side not: Love your videos and find it only natural, that you try to explain phenomenon from a chemical standpoint.

    • @DaveTpletsch
      @DaveTpletsch 6 років тому +21

      I'm a potter and this is exactly what I thought, since my personal experience shows that this happens a lot with insular crystalline structures. We call it thermal shock, and almost all glassy structures, and many kinds of rock are vulnerable to it. I also think NileRed's explanation of the potential of chemically trapped water vapor inside the crystal lattice is an excellent hypothesis, as it's something I also tend to see a lot. In minerals you almost always find water where you don't expect it, and as soon as it's headed up past the boiling point you have the equivalent of a microscopic pipe bomb. I've seen rocks calcined for use in glazes that were heated too fast and explode with enough force to destroy a kiln, specifically because of trapped gass and water vapor.

    • @6alecapristrudel
      @6alecapristrudel 6 років тому +15

      Note: thermal and electrical conductivity are not really correlated in non-metals. Diamond is one of the best thermal conductors. Superfluid helium is so good (the best) that heat conduction in it is called "second sound". As you can probably guess none of these are electrical conductors.

    • @silverhusky7993
      @silverhusky7993 6 років тому +3

      This was a nice read. Thanks for sharing

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  6 років тому +45

      That was something that honestly just slipped my mind. However, in hindsight, it was definitely the reason or at least a major contributor.

    • @Diamonddavej
      @Diamonddavej 6 років тому +9

      Pyrite is often full of fluid inclusions. Fluid inclusions in pyrite can be studied optically using an infrared microscope, as pyrite is transparent in thin section in infrared light. Also, the fluid inclusions are often under high pressure, as the pyrite formed deep underground and was brought to the surface...
      www.appliedminex.com/decrep/orals/bne12/char130-both.jpg
      So I think exploding fluid inclusions played a part too.
      I remember a few years ago, aquamarine crystals rich in fluid inclusions (some with movable spirit-level like bubbles) arrived on the mineral collecting market, many were bought by collectors but they soon realised they crystals a bad habit of exploding when displayed under hot spotlights. One such specimen exploded and broke the glass shelf it was on. Here's people talking about exploding crystals in thread on Mindat...
      www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,6,370049,370084

  • @kateonianlaw1127
    @kateonianlaw1127 6 років тому +61

    Some pyrites can have gold trapped in the Matrices of the crystal structures, so they are still worth something. Just be careful of arsenopyrite which is more silvery white and supposed to smell similar to garlic when crushed.

    • @samvimes1083
      @samvimes1083 6 років тому +11

      I work in a gold/copper mine and this is exactly the form most of our gold is in. We also have pretty substantial amounts of chalcopyrite, as you'd expect.

    • @mnbassing8686
      @mnbassing8686 4 роки тому +2

      Lens98052 do it...

    • @TheRandomizerYT
      @TheRandomizerYT 4 роки тому +2

      @@mnbassing8686
      Yeah

  • @kamyarghofrani
    @kamyarghofrani 5 років тому +202

    I think it's breaking because of asymmetric thermal expansion. Try putting in oven?!

    • @TheRandomizerYT
      @TheRandomizerYT 4 роки тому +2

      @Evi1M4chine
      Ouch that hurt.

    • @nebul1269
      @nebul1269 4 роки тому +2

      @@TheRandomizerYT what is the guy talking about?

    • @fireflyfireworks668
      @fireflyfireworks668 4 роки тому +15

      @Evi1M4chine Hello person who has nothing achieved in it's life and is now jealous of others.

    • @iLLya_
      @iLLya_ 4 роки тому +1

      @@fireflyfireworks668 hello defender of random people on the internet

    • @luisp.3788
      @luisp.3788 4 роки тому +6

      @@iLLya_ hello stranger

  • @Phapchamp
    @Phapchamp 2 роки тому +7

    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.

  • @Luna_Spiritus
    @Luna_Spiritus 4 роки тому +7

    I love listening to you talking about minerals. So soothing...

  • @michaelball93
    @michaelball93 6 років тому +56

    Ooh! An educational video not sponsored by Squarespace, Skillshare or Great Courses Plus!

    • @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369
      @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 5 років тому

      Michael Ball « Brilliant »

    • @bigfootbuthesmokesweed6766
      @bigfootbuthesmokesweed6766 5 років тому +2

      @Copper Cortex no one said they were horrible, it's just surprising to not hear that annoying "this video was sponsored by '( )' " at the start of every video

  • @hopeful_krystal
    @hopeful_krystal 5 років тому +50

    gold: heavy and squishy
    pyrite: brittle and light weight

  • @RadicalCaveman
    @RadicalCaveman 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @GLITCH_-.-
    @GLITCH_-.- 6 років тому +36

    It's not a mineral per se, but buy some 99,9% silicon, crush some and dissolve it in hot sodium hydroxide. Then put a small piece of the silicon crystal in it and let it stay for a long time or test how to speed it up (I don't know)
    It will grow transparent silicon cystals around the silver one!

    • @zombiasnow15
      @zombiasnow15 5 років тому

      Sounds amazing!

    • @alexwang982
      @alexwang982 5 років тому

      Are they good enough for semiconductors?

  • @guilleboss9206
    @guilleboss9206 5 років тому +8

    Hey, I'm from that region of Spain. It's called Galicia, and I can confirm that those crystals form naturally as well as other useful ores such as wolfram, making Galicia one of Europe's most important mining areas.
    PD: I love your videos so much

    • @Endermanso
      @Endermanso 5 років тому

      En la rioja también tenemos jeje

  • @t8ertot767
    @t8ertot767 4 роки тому +187

    3:08 big chungus

    • @nonexistentboi
      @nonexistentboi 3 роки тому +10

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    • @zUltra3D
      @zUltra3D 3 роки тому +3

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    • @nonexistentboi
      @nonexistentboi 3 роки тому +4

      @@zUltra3D We're no strangers to love
      You know the rules and so do I
      A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
      You wouldn't get this from any other guy
      I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
      Gotta make you understand
      Never gonna give you up
      Never gonna let you down
      Never gonna run around and desert you
      Never gonna make you cry
      Never gonna say goodbye
      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
      We've known each other for so long
      Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
      Inside we both know what's been going on
      We know the game and we're gonna play it
      And if you ask me how I'm feeling
      Don't tell me you're too blind to see
      Never gonna give you up
      Never gonna let you down
      Never gonna run around and desert you
      Never gonna make you cry
      Never gonna say goodbye
      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
      Never gonna give you up
      Never gonna let you down
      Never gonna run around and desert you
      Never gonna make you cry
      Never gonna say goodbye
      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
      Never gonna give, never gonna give
      (Give you up)
      We've known each other for so long
      Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
      Inside we both know what's been going on
      We know the game and we're gonna play it
      I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
      Gotta make you understand
      Never gonna give you up
      Never gonna let you down
      Never gonna run around and desert you
      Never gonna make you cry
      Never gonna say goodbye
      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
      Never gonna give you up
      Never gonna let you down
      Never gonna run around and desert you
      Never gonna make you cry
      Never gonna say goodbye
      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
      Never gonna give you up
      Never gonna let you down
      Never gonna run around and desert you
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    • @nonexistentboi
      @nonexistentboi 3 роки тому

      @Redchi good one ngl

    • @blueback999
      @blueback999 3 роки тому

      @@nonexistentboi F*****

  • @Sleepyjew
    @Sleepyjew 2 роки тому

    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!

  • @karhukivi
    @karhukivi 4 роки тому +7

    Here's another fun fact - when blasting in mines with a lot of pyrite in the ore, the pyrite dust can explode if it happens to get mixed with the right amount of air in what is called a secondary explosion. This can happen with other airborne dust, like flour.

  • @vornamenachname6300
    @vornamenachname6300 6 років тому +60

    Do a video on ruby/sapphire, so aluminum oxide

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 6 років тому +5

      After that, do an episode on their fusion, Garnet.

  • @getprobed838
    @getprobed838 6 років тому +18

    You make me love chemistry again. Haven't done chemistry since highschool.

  • @davidklemen5264
    @davidklemen5264 Рік тому +1

    Named after gold for looking like gold but not being gold, but at the same time being 10x cooler than actual gols

  • @betoen
    @betoen 6 років тому +73

    This content is not boring at all, but interesting, and I almost always fall asleep when watch it.

    • @betoen
      @betoen 6 років тому +2

      Pedro Silveira
      Not at all, man. I have been watching this channel since 2014.

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 6 років тому +1

      What you said is really contradictory but ok

    • @OneDirection267
      @OneDirection267 6 років тому

      Omg! Me too! Its so calming :)

    • @justinl2009
      @justinl2009 5 років тому

      @@Nugcon I can sorta understand him. I always nod off while listening to dope music, its probably the same situation with OP

  • @curtiss.arnold1318
    @curtiss.arnold1318 4 роки тому +7

    I think you just explained something that I've been trying to deduce for a while.
    I'm an amateur geologist, specializing in pyrite, mostly because I live near a limestone bed. Anyway.
    I acid bathe a lot of my rocks to etch them or otherwise see what happens, and almost always I'm left with a close to neutral yellow solution.
    I think I've been doing on a much larger scale what you described at 6:07. And the gaseous subtly egg smelling output also makes the most sense.
    Cool! F****n' science!

  • @aSingularPhoton
    @aSingularPhoton 5 років тому +34

    8:26 little does he know he found the most efficient cheapest best way to create a super capicator

  • @toddfiller4631
    @toddfiller4631 9 місяців тому

    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.

  • @Ecliptical84
    @Ecliptical84 5 років тому +8

    i freaking LOVE pyrite. i love how it looks like gold, but is actually sturdier than gold and isn’t as heavy. i find it so cool.

  • @OceanBagel
    @OceanBagel 6 років тому +23

    Please do a video on Alexandrite! It has the cool property of changing colors depending on what kind of light it's in.

    • @creofix9960
      @creofix9960 5 років тому

      Its realy expesive one small rock is 4000 dollars

  • @tyrantgaming7492
    @tyrantgaming7492 4 роки тому +12

    I just carefully BLASTED it with a B L O W T O R C H
    -NileRed 2018

  • @Michigk
    @Michigk Рік тому +1

    In Germany we call it „Katzengold“ which means Cat gold, because of the shining it has like cat eyes

  • @JohnDoe-gm5qr
    @JohnDoe-gm5qr 5 років тому +10

    When you mentioned sulfur dioxide and the paper industry you got me thinking of those smelly paper mills. I am glad there are none of those near me. I just know somewhere is some unfortunate person who lives near one of those but also near a sewage treatment plant. I wonder how awful that would be.

    • @woodhonky3890
      @woodhonky3890 2 роки тому

      Ah, hell. Afteryer nose hairs burn out you hardly smellit at all.

  • @ExodusX1
    @ExodusX1 4 роки тому +25

    5:19 "I carefully shot it with a blowtorch" -NileRed

  • @AwakeningEnthusiast
    @AwakeningEnthusiast 4 роки тому +4

    This has to be the most intricate explanation of pyrite that I have ever seen! Nice work bro!