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Oh, they probably just noticed one day that the two are almost nothing alike each other, and that you'd have to be an idiot to fail to identify them as separate materials. Ever seen gold leave a big black streak when dragged across a surface?

And the compound you're referring to is called iron pyrite-- "fool's gold," is a nickname. It's called "fool's gold" because you'd have to be a "fool" not to be able to tell it apart from gold. Otherwise they'd probably call it something like "nearly gold, almost anyone could fall for the similarities." But they don't.

The alchemists would not have known streak-plate tests or compounds like iron pyrites as that, but they might have picked up other characteristics, such the ease or otherwise of melting the two materials. Remember that alchemists were not scientists as we would accept, but empiricists who worked on random guess-work in searching for that which cannot exist.

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