Fools Gold in a Bottle for your collection!
A great part bag filler or classroom resource for a geology program. Shiny!
A 7cm bottle filled with iron pyrite (aka fools gold).
For ages 4 and up
What is Fool's Gold?
Have you ever heard the phrase “all that glitters isn't gold"? It means that just because something is shiny and golden, it's not necessarily gold…or valuable. As it turns out, it's absolutely true, too!
Gold is a chemicalelement. It's a soft, shiny, bright yellow metal that happens to be very rare. It doesn't react with many other elements, so it's often found in its pure elemental form of nuggets or grains in rocks found in stream beds or veins in larger rock formations.
Because of its natural beauty, rarity, and many practical uses in jewelry and industrial applications, gold is one of the most valuable precious metals in the world. As a result, gold has been sought by people for thousands of years.
The discovery of gold has at times sparked a frenzy. For example, when gold was discovered in the American West, a “gold rush" occurred, which brought thousands of people west to mine for gold in the hope of getting rich quickly.
As these new miners searched western stream beds for gold, some found gold and made money. Many others found something that glittered but wasn't gold.
Pyrite is a shiny mineral made of iron and sulfur that looks very much like real gold. It's not a metal, however. It's an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2.
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Fools Gold in a Bottle for your collection!
A great part bag filler or classroom resource for a geology program. Shiny!
- A 7cm bottle filled with iron pyrite (aka fools gold).
- For ages 4 and up
What is Fool's Gold?Have you ever heard the phrase “all that glitters isn't gold"? It means that just because something is shiny and golden, it's not necessarily gold…or valuable. As it turns out, it's absolutely true, too!
Gold is a chemical element. It's a soft, shiny, bright yellow metal that happens to be very rare. It doesn't react with many other elements, so it's often found in its pure elemental form of nuggets or grains in rocks found in stream beds or veins in larger rock formations.
Because of its natural beauty, rarity, and many practical uses in jewelry and industrial applications, gold is one of the most valuable precious metals in the world. As a result, gold has been sought by people for thousands of years.
The discovery of gold has at times sparked a frenzy. For example, when gold was discovered in the American West, a “gold rush" occurred, which brought thousands of people west to mine for gold in the hope of getting rich quickly.
As these new miners searched western stream beds for gold, some found gold and made money. Many others found something that glittered but wasn't gold.
Pyrite is a shiny mineral made of iron and sulfur that looks very much like real gold. It's not a metal, however. It's an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2.