larger pieces of pyrite will crumble when a knife is pressed into them.
A rock which is "peppered" with many small pieces of gold will sound off with a metal detector, pyrite will not.
Scratching a larger piece of pyrite will produce a sulfur smell.
fool's gold is another word for pyrite.
Real gold is extremely soft and malleable; therefore, real gold could be dented with little pressure. Fools gold (Iron Pyrite) is much harder, and therefore harder to dent. A practical method is to get the material wet, and hold it up in the sun. Gold and fools gold will both shine. Now put your hand between the material and the sun. The gold will still shine, but the fools gold will become quite dark. This is because the shine of gold comes from diffuse reflection (like light shining on paper), while fools gold's comes from specular reflection (like a mirror).
Every Time Two Fools Collide was created in 1977.
There isn't much for examples of fools gold in everyday items that you have in your house. About the only thing i can think of besides looking at a piece of fools gold in pictures on the internet or at a local rock shop or museum would be to crumple some tinfoil up and color it a dark gold. Where you see the small, almost square patterns in the tinfoil is a bit like fools gold. Iron Pyrite, this minerals metalic luster and pale brass-yellow hue have earned it the the nickname "fools gold" because of its resemblance to gold.
Iron pyrite, also known as fools gold, is mainly found in sedimentary rocks. It forms as a result of sedimentation and diagenesis processes.
"Fool's gold" is a term used to describe the mineral pyrite, which looks similar to real gold but is actually iron sulfide. In kids' language, you could explain it by saying that fool's gold is a shiny mineral that may look like gold, but it's not the real thing.
by the the difference between their density
fools ask such stupid questions
Gold rushing fools, opportunists, adventurers, Sourdoughs (experienced miners), Cheechakos (new miners).
you all fools. if you cannot provides us answer than who give the answers....
They would smash it with a rock.
Fools are fools of their own accord, zombies cannot help it.
A person who always fools others could be referred to as a trickster or a prankster.
Pyrite is called fools' gold because miners found it and thought it was gold. It looks like gold but really isn't.
Not true;
You could but that would hurt their feelings when you say "APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!!!"
No we are not fools
The fools