What is Fool's Gold?

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  • @elbarto8282
    @elbarto8282 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14977

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

    • @parishna4882
      @parishna4882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +858

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

    • @Karldin83
      @Karldin83 5 ปีที่แล้ว +427

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

    • @sdoaiza
      @sdoaiza 5 ปีที่แล้ว +497

      bismuth is crazy too

    • @akbarrmd7714
      @akbarrmd7714 5 ปีที่แล้ว +275

      "Perfectly balanced. Like all things should be"

    • @FluffyFractalshard
      @FluffyFractalshard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +258

      sacred geometry is everywhere in nature

  • @orbitalpotato9940
    @orbitalpotato9940 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10234

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

    • @Paradox_Edge
      @Paradox_Edge 5 ปีที่แล้ว +316

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

    • @Vladimir_Kv
      @Vladimir_Kv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      INCONCEIVABLE

    • @ocnarf40
      @ocnarf40 5 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      *THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK*

    • @crewcut
      @crewcut 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

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

  • @Joey_Hughes
    @Joey_Hughes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4079

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

    • @Wockes
      @Wockes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      and eating the dirt

    • @dinosoarskill17
      @dinosoarskill17 5 ปีที่แล้ว +148

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

    • @dakshtheidiot
      @dakshtheidiot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

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

    • @johncenaplayingstarcraft9580
      @johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      i found smelly chocolate :)

    • @weebyes2951
      @weebyes2951 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      when i was a kid i never played outside lol

  • @aurum606
    @aurum606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1225

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

    • @xXGamingFactorXx
      @xXGamingFactorXx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

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

    • @crazyconstellations2532
      @crazyconstellations2532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The movie: *inaudible yelling*

    • @peasandmashedpotatoes6246
      @peasandmashedpotatoes6246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @naveednawwaf
      @naveednawwaf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @thatbiachecalledLoue
      @thatbiachecalledLoue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      me when i smack my sisters head:

  • @yassminebouhouch60
    @yassminebouhouch60 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3432

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

  • @video99couk
    @video99couk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4130

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +275

      That's what he told you.

    • @osirex5495
      @osirex5495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +440

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

    • @dickJohnsonpeter
      @dickJohnsonpeter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

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

    • @hippieduck
      @hippieduck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      @@dickJohnsonpeter I mean you just killed the joke

    • @kaironst2969
      @kaironst2969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@dickJohnsonpeter r/woooosh

  • @lyrilmtv2428
    @lyrilmtv2428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6099

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

    • @lewisj.9903
      @lewisj.9903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +465

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

    • @lewisj.9903
      @lewisj.9903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

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

    • @sswpp8908
      @sswpp8908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +379

      Gold = fool's pyrite

    • @lyrilmtv2428
      @lyrilmtv2428 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@sswpp8908 lol

  • @Nedskiee
    @Nedskiee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +597

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Very cool, thanks for sharing this story!

    • @AMan-xz7tx
      @AMan-xz7tx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @hydropage2855
      @hydropage2855 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      RIP your lungs

    • @unoreverse-qe5dk
      @unoreverse-qe5dk ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @LawsOnJoystick
      @LawsOnJoystick ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @ICaligvla
    @ICaligvla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8973

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

    • @reapeashooter2
      @reapeashooter2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +721

      Bismuth:

    • @safir2241
      @safir2241 5 ปีที่แล้ว +270

      Diamond:

    • @ICaligvla
      @ICaligvla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +635

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว +62

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

    • @ICaligvla
      @ICaligvla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +324

      @@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
    @parishna4882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4142

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

  • @EthanThomson
    @EthanThomson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4919

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

    • @mastershooter64
      @mastershooter64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +275

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

    • @DumbBearPoster
      @DumbBearPoster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@ApostleOfCats that's the point

    • @jaffil4026
      @jaffil4026 3 ปีที่แล้ว +209

      @@ApostleOfCatsmaybe i am gay

    • @envy461
      @envy461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      @@ApostleOfCats proof that everyone is gay

    • @enbyfrogz6766
      @enbyfrogz6766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@ApostleOfCats *laughs in gay*

  • @FlawlessRhythmGG
    @FlawlessRhythmGG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    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.

  • @anorak9383
    @anorak9383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6253

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

    • @CouchPotatoCrusader
      @CouchPotatoCrusader 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Lol yes

    • @lrizzard
      @lrizzard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +835

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

    • @ecave3435
      @ecave3435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      he said excited

    • @esha9114
      @esha9114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      wait i own fool's gold....

    • @noneofyourbusiness9907
      @noneofyourbusiness9907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      the gas isnt as toxic ?

  • @petyarizova2906
    @petyarizova2906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3257

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lmao 😂

    • @persontheguyman223
      @persontheguyman223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@persontheguyman223 same

    • @ashrafhaider598
      @ashrafhaider598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I did exactly the same thing and thought I found gold

    • @julien4305
      @julien4305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @jomnch
    @jomnch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2067

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

    • @nakinajay
      @nakinajay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Hahaha now that's gold right there.

    • @nalyddoow9295
      @nalyddoow9295 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Its 4:28 AM

    • @onyourface207
      @onyourface207 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @decatessara5029
      @decatessara5029 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @kie only 1:12 AM for me

    • @BlasianYT
      @BlasianYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's 3:04 AM right now

  • @dressedinwhite3673
    @dressedinwhite3673 3 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ja, das ist richtig

    • @Securityism
      @Securityism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I want cat gold.

    • @DEV-rw7eu
      @DEV-rw7eu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Securityism NO. you get cait bat

    • @sharron74
      @sharron74 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Kissalege
      @Kissalege 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Same in finland. Katin kulta

  • @Steph-mc7px
    @Steph-mc7px 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1815

    "I just carefully shot it with a blowtorch"

    • @luco663
      @luco663 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      How do u carefully blowtorch something?

    • @muddro420
      @muddro420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      @@luco663 very carefully

    • @luco663
      @luco663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@muddro420 lmao

    • @das3610
      @das3610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Anonymous 99 well how else would you do it carefully?

    • @luco663
      @luco663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@das3610 true

  • @iseespiritshelp688
    @iseespiritshelp688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3915

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +32

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

    • @ililiililliliill9498
      @ililiililliliill9498 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @igksulk8489
      @igksulk8489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @sairabanokazmi1150
      @sairabanokazmi1150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @Linuxdirk
    @Linuxdirk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +894

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

    • @UItEnthusiast
      @UItEnthusiast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

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

    • @KidPrarchord95
      @KidPrarchord95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@UItEnthusiast Take the gold and cubify it

    • @SkyBooFast
      @SkyBooFast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @KidPrarchord95
      @KidPrarchord95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@SkyBooFast Yes they do

    • @Fede_uyz
      @Fede_uyz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @ActionAdventureTwins
    @ActionAdventureTwins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    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

  • @omomolol9636
    @omomolol9636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1275

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

    • @justyouraveragemartian783
      @justyouraveragemartian783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      it isnt called fools gold for nothing!

    • @Anthracite_coal
      @Anthracite_coal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@Anthracite_coal yeah pretty sure it's radioactive

    • @majesto8487
      @majesto8487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      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

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 5 ปีที่แล้ว +354

    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
      @hugoehhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      huh..

    • @stevenalexander6262
      @stevenalexander6262 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      oh wow

    • @milkman9412
      @milkman9412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Uh oh

    • @Siphonife
      @Siphonife 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @maytinpeh3682
      @maytinpeh3682 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Siphonife welp he's dead

  • @kafazyshorthop9909
    @kafazyshorthop9909 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2172

    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.

  • @onlirier2993
    @onlirier2993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

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

  • @kristoffer2250
    @kristoffer2250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +554

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

    • @fuckgoogle2554
      @fuckgoogle2554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      #FuckAmarti

    • @Mr.Blue987
      @Mr.Blue987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

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

    • @kristoffer2250
      @kristoffer2250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @vixen878
      @vixen878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Mr.Blue987 holo best girl

    • @last-genrichtofen9360
      @last-genrichtofen9360 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who?

  • @Blutzen
    @Blutzen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @wandlpvonmurica3293
    @wandlpvonmurica3293 5 ปีที่แล้ว +701

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

    • @spiromatik
      @spiromatik 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

    • @seneca983
      @seneca983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kenne ich

    • @Luna_Spiritus
      @Luna_Spiritus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool.

    • @AmyAnnLand
      @AmyAnnLand 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

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

  • @Jus_Joj
    @Jus_Joj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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

  • @Anonymouthful
    @Anonymouthful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +302

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

    • @Securityism
      @Securityism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Fools beach.

    • @mynamehasspacesinit8687
      @mynamehasspacesinit8687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Securityism I thought that was Jersey Shore.

    • @shankaka_99
      @shankaka_99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That’s super cool

    • @TheNunWhoKnocks
      @TheNunWhoKnocks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @Nehauon
      @Nehauon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That sounds beautiful

  • @maggiemaggie7641
    @maggiemaggie7641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @Kolateak_
    @Kolateak_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1264

    >Cheap
    >100 dollars
    Choose one

    • @wahzawahzo2949
      @wahzawahzo2949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      @@dennyg3315 shut it, steven fanboye

    • @Gurung137
      @Gurung137 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      akvep1

    • @wahzawahzo2949
      @wahzawahzo2949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @hygrifkrrshinavask949
      @hygrifkrrshinavask949 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      one

  • @squishybrick
    @squishybrick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't do Uranium

    • @floresilla
      @floresilla ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @000bHd000
    @000bHd000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +749

    15:12
    you good?

    • @moritzschaferalthaus3461
      @moritzschaferalthaus3461 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Minecraft Player Well,I guess

    • @70lulatsch
      @70lulatsch 6 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      That escalated quickly :D

    • @monowavy
      @monowavy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      internalized anger.

    • @HighMansx
      @HighMansx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I love the pause hahaha

    • @Schradermusic
      @Schradermusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Everybody has a little HowToBasic inside them.

  • @Lazarus1897
    @Lazarus1897 5 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    Running in forest barefooted and stepping on that would be critical

    • @blpanzer
      @blpanzer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Still better than a bear-trap..

    • @mm-hc6im
      @mm-hc6im 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      critical damage

    • @FRCN-th1kj
      @FRCN-th1kj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What, your saying its *WORSE* THAN LEGOS

    • @TheLiquidFox0323
      @TheLiquidFox0323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @patatjuuuh9808
      @patatjuuuh9808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Underrated comment

  • @smallblue08
    @smallblue08 6 ปีที่แล้ว +528

    Wow that perfectly formed cube on the rock looked beautiful

    • @OhSoTiredMan
      @OhSoTiredMan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

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

    • @cafeteriacat869
      @cafeteriacat869 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ghostwalker CIA nice quote

    • @ochentaycincoalbricias
      @ochentaycincoalbricias 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @Thematic2177
      @Thematic2177 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @coreyhudson3484
    @coreyhudson3484 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @WolfiiDog13
    @WolfiiDog13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @ItMe12s
    @ItMe12s 5 ปีที่แล้ว +268

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

    • @jmmjjmmjjmmj
      @jmmjjmmjjmmj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ha

    • @thenotsofriendlybird957
      @thenotsofriendlybird957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thunder cross split attack!

    • @LawrenceLS
      @LawrenceLS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thenotsofriendlybird957 is this a jojo reference

    • @thenotsofriendlybird957
      @thenotsofriendlybird957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@LawrenceLS Nahhh probably not

    • @LawrenceLS
      @LawrenceLS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thenotsofriendlybird957 ur name and pfp is amazing

  • @WangleLine
    @WangleLine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +910

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

    • @user-nt6ru8ne7b
      @user-nt6ru8ne7b 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

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

    • @LAppelDuVideo
      @LAppelDuVideo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      HowToNile

    • @illumitabris
      @illumitabris 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @masonwoowoo
      @masonwoowoo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

  • @TheEudaemonicPlague
    @TheEudaemonicPlague ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @henrydawson8096
    @henrydawson8096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +255

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

    • @theisjepsen22
      @theisjepsen22 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That sounds cool, any videos on TH-cam?

    • @henrydawson8096
      @henrydawson8096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Idk but I have one

    • @ZagorTeNayebo
      @ZagorTeNayebo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Shiny Omanyte confirmed

    • @godleveleldritchblast5257
      @godleveleldritchblast5257 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ah yes "Fool's Golden Ratio"

  • @ciclon5682
    @ciclon5682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +580

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

    • @Akumasama
      @Akumasama 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

    • @CheezyBois998
      @CheezyBois998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @shafa.n.t
      @shafa.n.t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Bee hive: am I a joke to you?

    • @Cinn_ical
      @Cinn_ical 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Bismuth had never seen such bullshit before

    • @panzer.kampfwagen
      @panzer.kampfwagen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      conpounds: *are we a joke to you*

  • @wickedresinshop
    @wickedresinshop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Spot on.😁

    • @Aven_colonthree
      @Aven_colonthree ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool

  • @BigParadox
    @BigParadox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @gs27777
    @gs27777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @CPUSublimeHeart
    @CPUSublimeHeart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

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

    • @jeremiahevans4175
      @jeremiahevans4175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There are no mistakes, just happy accidents

    • @Panzerbunn
      @Panzerbunn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another one that falls for the fool's gold.

    • @leo79033
      @leo79033 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Go learn blender, its fun

  • @tarrute
    @tarrute 5 ปีที่แล้ว +176

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

    • @solostrings4056
      @solostrings4056 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @youngghozt7807
      @youngghozt7807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @solostrings4056
      @solostrings4056 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @xxqino
      @xxqino 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Wulff20ko
    @Wulff20ko 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    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

  • @SiriusArc7
    @SiriusArc7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +289

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @donpalmera
      @donpalmera 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @BothHands1
      @BothHands1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BothHands1 おいら春日部に住んでるぞ。

    • @bluejayechaosenbybirb5865
      @bluejayechaosenbybirb5865 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @lordwalrus183
    @lordwalrus183 6 ปีที่แล้ว +251

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

  • @markolazarevic4209
    @markolazarevic4209 6 ปีที่แล้ว +450

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      He needed to be sacrificed for the greater good.

    • @codyv308
      @codyv308 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      For SCIENCE!

    • @1224chrisng
      @1224chrisng 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      15:05

    • @ollie9518
      @ollie9518 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@NileRed For the greater good...

    • @Ronirvan
      @Ronirvan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @dwux
    @dwux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    10:45 Forbiden freshly gorund black pepper

  • @daivomjoshi8677
    @daivomjoshi8677 6 ปีที่แล้ว +278

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

    • @daivomjoshi8677
      @daivomjoshi8677 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      SiO2 QUARTZ...MAKE A VIDEO ON IT

    • @KnowledgePerformance7
      @KnowledgePerformance7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Woah calm down there

    • @rocknexus5749
      @rocknexus5749 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @moth.monster
      @moth.monster 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

  • @tex_c9499
    @tex_c9499 6 ปีที่แล้ว +105

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

    • @darkind
      @darkind 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thats just... Bad.

    • @nomadpeopleallowed4491
      @nomadpeopleallowed4491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Perfectionists: *y tho*

    • @djscottdog1
      @djscottdog1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      DJ Scottdog
      Foolsquared

  • @dio5371
    @dio5371 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @raccoonking3877
      @raccoonking3877 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @johndanielsaffold428
      @johndanielsaffold428 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      very true

    • @ren-pf6mr
      @ren-pf6mr 6 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @qqidiwqehdfoiwqehoi1031
      @qqidiwqehdfoiwqehoi1031 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree

  • @just_some_random_dude8145
    @just_some_random_dude8145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @cyn0_
    @cyn0_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +510

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

    • @blueisnotgreen7258
      @blueisnotgreen7258 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @cyn0_
      @cyn0_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @blueisnotgreen7258
      @blueisnotgreen7258 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @cyn0_
      @cyn0_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Blueis Notgreen what?

    • @blueisnotgreen7258
      @blueisnotgreen7258 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @kennethwilliams6916
    @kennethwilliams6916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @damianich4824
    @damianich4824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +192

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

  • @geoffpaterson8208
    @geoffpaterson8208 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @Lilith-uf2uy
    @Lilith-uf2uy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

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

    • @purplerose5424
      @purplerose5424 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m confused, what does that mean?

    • @-tododeku-7511
      @-tododeku-7511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@purplerose5424 5:00 lol

    • @joostdriesens3984
      @joostdriesens3984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @chocolatepudding1241
      @chocolatepudding1241 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @connorperdicaro2953
      @connorperdicaro2953 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @michaelrose93
    @michaelrose93 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      yay he made a video about it

  • @bene20080
    @bene20080 6 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This was a nice read. Thanks for sharing

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @Erden99
    @Erden99 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I can swear I've never seen this vid before, but it was liked. I must've used it as a sleep aid, Nile's voice is very calming.

  • @QuantumFluxable
    @QuantumFluxable 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @williamjarvis7949
    @williamjarvis7949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So Hematite and Feldspar have a Plutonic relationship? 😁

    • @pedrovargas2181
      @pedrovargas2181 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds interesting, but would be understandable in actual English.

  • @ZirconGames
    @ZirconGames 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@@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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @SaintCronch
    @SaintCronch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I work at a sulfite paper mill and work with H2S and SO2 all day. H2S is a tricky gas as it is easily detected in LOW koncentration, it smells like rotten eggs. However when the koncentration reaches higher levels it disables your nose so you can't smell it anymore. You really need a detector with you for safety reasons. Walking into SO2 you'll notice right away as it's very angry on your eyes and airways

  • @lavendersugar143
    @lavendersugar143 6 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    "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 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @vincentdreemurr
      @vincentdreemurr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@NashTheGreat ok boomer

    • @juancit4254
      @juancit4254 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Reality_Gamer_2
      @Reality_Gamer_2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NashTheGreat i remember the good ol days

  • @Ballacha
    @Ballacha 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

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

  • @Luna_Spiritus
    @Luna_Spiritus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @godleveleldritchblast5257
    @godleveleldritchblast5257 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The reason the pyrite started cracking is due to the sulphur changing its crystalline structure inside the pyrite. Also changing the sulphur structure in pyrite causes it to become magnetic and also cause it to explode due to repelling of opposite magnetic fields inside the stone. Heneral it's not a good idea to heat a rock with a blowtorch unless it's an aluminate as it will cause the rock to heat up unevenly and that adds to the shattering due to some rocks not being able to withstand direct heat Vs indirect heat which is also the case here, for example heating amethyst with a torch and it will explode, heat it in a microwave and you get citrine. Play with pyrite at your own discretion, it's dangerous if it comes in contact with different metals under high heat. Nobody wants a fire at 3000C degrees to blow up in their face, now do we.

  • @kamyarghofrani
    @kamyarghofrani 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

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

    • @TheRandomizerYT
      @TheRandomizerYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Evi1M4chine
      Ouch that hurt.

    • @nebul1269
      @nebul1269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheRandomizerYT what is the guy talking about?

    • @fireflyfireworks668
      @fireflyfireworks668 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @iLLya_
      @iLLya_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fireflyfireworks668 hello defender of random people on the internet

    • @luisp.3788
      @luisp.3788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@iLLya_ hello stranger

  • @curtiss.arnold1318
    @curtiss.arnold1318 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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!

  • @kateonianlaw1127
    @kateonianlaw1127 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lens98052 do it...

    • @TheRandomizerYT
      @TheRandomizerYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mnbassing8686
      Yeah

  • @goblineergaming2995
    @goblineergaming2995 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!

  • @josephwodarczyk977
    @josephwodarczyk977 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Never seen this channel before but I'm definitely subscribed, love this stuff. Also the reaction at 10:50 was awesome.

  • @GLITCH_-.-
    @GLITCH_-.- 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds amazing!

    • @alexwang982
      @alexwang982 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are they good enough for semiconductors?

  • @guilleboss9206
    @guilleboss9206 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      En la rioja también tenemos jeje

  • @space_gamer9146
    @space_gamer9146 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Title: What is fool's gold?
    Me, a fool: Gold

  • @among-us-99999
    @among-us-99999 6 ปีที่แล้ว +479

    I would love to see Silicon carbide!

    • @Muonium1
      @Muonium1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ya he could make homemade LED with it.

    • @Diamonddavej
      @Diamonddavej 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Diamonddavej
      *Moissanite

    • @kmarasin
      @kmarasin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Boron Nitride

    • @crominion6045
      @crominion6045 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @t8ertot767
    @t8ertot767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    3:08 big chungus

    • @nonexistentboi
      @nonexistentboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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    • @zUltra3D
      @zUltra3D 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nonexistentboi You know what, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII give up! Goodbye!

    • @nonexistentboi
      @nonexistentboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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
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    • @nonexistentboi
      @nonexistentboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Redchi good one ngl

    • @blueback999
      @blueback999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nonexistentboi F*****

  • @betoen
    @betoen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

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

    • @betoen
      @betoen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What you said is really contradictory but ok

    • @OneDirection267
      @OneDirection267 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Omg! Me too! Its so calming :)

    • @justinl2009
      @justinl2009 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @rembautimes8808
    @rembautimes8808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @meikkiris
    @meikkiris 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

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

    • @zaidzehn
      @zaidzehn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @npetrikov3801
      @npetrikov3801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In katinkulta which is gold and which is the cat?

    • @hippieduck
      @hippieduck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same in Sweden: "Kattguld"

    • @Batista77387
      @Batista77387 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really

  • @vornamenachname6300
    @vornamenachname6300 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Do a video on ruby/sapphire, so aluminum oxide

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @hopeful_krystal
    @hopeful_krystal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    gold: heavy and squishy
    pyrite: brittle and light weight

  • @artdamphousse7154
    @artdamphousse7154 ปีที่แล้ว

    The easiest way to ID between pyrite and gold is sandpaper of any grit, although the finer grit is best. Gold will leave gold colored streaks on the sandpaper, and pyrite will leave streaks that are blackish to a dark rust colored brownish red.

  • @michaelball93
    @michaelball93 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

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

    • @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369
      @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Michael Ball « Brilliant »

    • @bigfootbuthesmokesweed6766
      @bigfootbuthesmokesweed6766 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @getprobed838
    @getprobed838 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

  • @fuzzygreen3634
    @fuzzygreen3634 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    5:04 When you date NileRed, you have to be worried about grabbing a chemically infused frying pan while cooking breakfast

    • @jrmbayne
      @jrmbayne 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not since he got the new lab

  • @Sleepyjew
    @Sleepyjew 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!

  • @garytindfw
    @garytindfw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Love your videos,
    BTW, many minerals can crystalize into more than one form depending on conditions, and other factors. Calcite has numerous crystal forms, quartz only has one. Small amounts of impurities have little effect on crystal structure but do effect other properties like color, density, etc. In your citric acid video, one of the crystals you thought looked different was probably just an example of twinning. The other dark one probably contained more impurities.
    In this video Marcasite and Pyrite are what we call polymorphs, diamond and graphite are also examples. Same formula but different bonding and arrangement in the crystal lattice.
    Maybe you should do a video extracting the water from Gypsum, it happens in nature to form Anhydrite.

  • @CookiePieMonster
    @CookiePieMonster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    "It'd be a shame to use my beautiful cube, so instead I bought some uglt ones."
    Idk why, but this tickled me.
    lul

  • @karhukivi
    @karhukivi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @kylealexander7024
    @kylealexander7024 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    K meta bi sulfate is what we use in wine to inhibit bacterial and fungal growth. Almost anything u see that says contains sulfites uses either KMBS or SodiunMBS. It all depends. It is a GRAS chemical

  • @pecfree
    @pecfree 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I love your chemistry videos bro. They are awesome. Thank you. You seem so young, but your knowledge is vast. well done

  • @AwakeningEnthusiast
    @AwakeningEnthusiast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @tyrantgaming7492
    @tyrantgaming7492 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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