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100
Pyrite, unlike gold, gives off a smell like this.
What is rotten eggs?
100
Metallic and glistening are ways to describe this about pyrite.
What is luster?
100
The scale that rates pyrite at a hardness of 6 to 6.5.
What is the Mohs hardness scale?
100
Ancient Incans used pyrite as this.
What are mirrors?
100
The ravages of elements can weather pyrite into this mineral.
What is Limonite?
200
An expression to describe the mineral that prospectors mistook for gold.
What is fools gold?
200
Gold is a metal, and pyrite is this.
What is iron sulfide?
200
Minerals that have the same chemical composition, but different crystal structures.
What are polymorphs?
200
In the 16th and 17th century, pyrite was the ignition in these.
What are firearms/guns?
200
The 12 sided crystal shape that pyrite can form in.
What is pyritohedrons?
300
This is the name when pyrite replaces material inside a fossil.
What are pyritized fossils?
300
When not sure if specimen is gold or pyrite, this test is reliable for telling the difference.
What is the streak test?
300
Grams per milliliter of an object is this.
What is density?
300
The acid that pyrite forms when weathering and can cause environmental and water problems, which limits use today.
What is sulfuric acid?
300
Decaying organic material consumes oxygen and releases this.
What is sulfur?
400
Pyrite is brittle and will break rather than bend as this does.
What is gold?
400
Illinois, Missouri, Peru, Russia, Spain, and South America are common areas for this.
What is pyrite mining?
400
Pyrite forms in sedimentary rocks in oxygen-poor environments in the presence of these.
What are iron and sulfur?
400
Pyrite is used to produce sulfur dioxide,which is useful for this.
What is preserving food?
400
An important tool to be able to identify within 2-3 seconds,if specimen is gold or pyrite is this.
What is a portable x-ray XRF analyzer?
500
In Greek, means "stone which strikes fire" in reference to the tendency of mineral to spark when struck against steel.
What is pyrite lithos?
500
During WWII,sulfur was in demand and a commercially valuable deposit of pyrite and sulfides were found near this city and state.
What is Ducktown, Tennessee?
500
Pyrite is commonly found in these.
What are nodules?
500
During the early years of the 20th century, pyrite was used in these as a mineral detector.
What is a radio receiver?
500
Where a group of researchers are studying to determine if pyrite can be used in solar panel cells.
What is MIT? (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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