{"id":124376,"date":"2021-06-28T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/fools-gold-actually-contains-a-newly-discovered-type-of-real-gold-scientists-find"},"modified":"2021-06-28T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:23:33","slug":"fools-gold-actually-contains-a-newly-discovered-type-of-real-gold-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/fools-gold-actually-contains-a-newly-discovered-type-of-real-gold-scientists-find","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fool\u2019s Gold\u2019 Actually Contains a Newly Discovered Type of Real Gold, Scientists Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXiDO4vjfVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The mineral pyrite was historically nicknamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/pyrite\">fool\u2019s gold<\/a> because of its deceptive resemblance to the precious metal.<\/p>\n<p>The term was often used during the California gold rush in the 1840s because inexperienced prospectors would claim discoveries of gold, but in reality it would be pyrite, composed of worthless iron disulfide (FeS\u2082).<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, pyrite crystals can contain small amounts of real gold, although it is notoriously hard to extract. Gold hiding within pyrite is sometimes referred to as \u201cinvisible gold\u201d, because it is not observable with standard microscopes, but instead requires sophisticated scientific instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mineral pyrite was historically nicknamed fool\u2019s gold because of its deceptive resemblance to the precious metal. The term was often used during the California gold rush in the 1840s because inexperienced prospectors would claim discoveries of gold, but in reality it would be pyrite, composed of worthless iron disulfide (FeS\u2082). Ironically, pyrite crystals can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}