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What is the Economic importance of pyrite?
what is Pyrite used for
Describe why color and streak are useful in identifying pyrite?
Pyrite's color is extremely similar to that of gold. However, the streak of pyrite is black. This can be used to distinguish it from gold.
Could pyrite be useful?
It can be used as fuel
What is marcasite jewelry made from?
Marcasite jewelry is an inexpensive type of jewelry that is mainly made of silver, and made to look like gold. Marcasite also has some pyrite in it, but the silver is used on top of the pyrite to prevent the jewelry from being brittle.
What does pyrite being a polymorph of a marcasite mean?
It means that Pyrite has the same chemical make up as a marcasite but has a different structure, symmetry, and shape.
What are some uses of pyrite?
Pyrite is normally referred to as Fools' Gold because it resembles gold. It is used for a source of sulfur.
How streak is used to distinguish between gold and pyrite?
Gold will have a yellow metallic streak, pyrite will have a greenish-black streak.
How is pyrite used in everyday life?
Pyrite is used for carpeting houses, growing food, bone density, manufacturing sulfur, sulfuric acid, sulfur dioxide, and inexpensive jewelry.
Is pyrite used in jewelry?
sometimes in cheaper kinds of jewelery
What are two minerals used to make gems?
pyrite and fluorite
What test is used to identify gold from pyrite?
When dragged across a streak plate, gold will leave a yellow streak, pyrite will leave a greenish-black streak. It is one way of differentiating gold from pyrite.
What is the difference between pyrite and a pyrite cube?
Pyrite is the mineral whereas a pyrite 'cube' happens to be the habit in which the mineral has crystallised
