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What is gold for fools? Detailed answer Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? What is gold for fools? If you are a prospector and are looking for gold, then for you the answer to this question is as important as the difference between huge wealth and immense poverty. Many miners have stumbled upon what they thought was gold, only to find, after analysis, that their hope of riches had vanished like smoke. What is known as "fool's gold" is actually iron pyrite. Since this yellow mineral is also dazzling, it can easily be mistaken for inclusions of native gold in the rock. Another reason for error is that gold is often found in the same places as ferruginous pyrite. Native gold is often found in quartz veinlets or in massifs of ferruginous pyrite. Water and wind carry away quartz and pyrite, and gold is weathered from the rocks. This means that the stone around the gold nuggets is washed out, leaving almost pure gold nuggets. Nuggets are washed away by water to the bottom of the valleys, and they are mixed with sand and gravel. In this form, gold is called alluvial, or loose. The first gold found by man was loose. But gold is often found in ores of other metals. Silver ore almost always contains some gold. Often gold is also found in copper ore. Gold is found even in sea water! Its content, however, is so small compared to the total volume of water that no one is able to extract gold from sea water. However, the oceans are so vast that the total amount of gold they contain is estimated at 9 tons. Chemists of the future will have to solve a very interesting problem - to extract gold from sea water. Author: Likum A. Random interesting fact from the Great Encyclopedia: How do Arabs write and read numbers? The Arabs use their own signs for writing numbers, although the Arabs of Europe and North Africa use the "Arabic" numbers familiar to us. However, whatever the signs of the numbers, the Arabs write them, like letters, from right to left, but starting with the lower digits. It turns out that if we meet familiar numbers in the Arabic text and read the number in the usual way from left to right, we will not be mistaken.
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