04371nam 2200697 450 991081789340332120230807205115.00-19-755948-40-19-020369-20-19-020368-4(CKB)2670000000599378(EBL)1980787(SSID)ssj0001438631(PQKBManifestationID)12547868(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438631(PQKBWorkID)11378922(PQKB)10213589(MiAaPQ)EBC1980787(StDuBDS)EDZ0002340635(Au-PeEL)EBL1980787(CaPaEBR)ebr11030408(CaONFJC)MIL746219(OCoLC)904548064(EXLCZ)99267000000059937820150319h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPyrite a natural history of fool's gold /David RickardNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (329 p.)Oxford scholarship onlineIncludes index.0-19-020367-6 1-336-14933-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Pyrite; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Prologue; Plates; 1 Foole's Gold; So What Do You Do?; Foole's Gold; Fool's Gold as Pyrite; Pyrite and the Founding of Canada; Frobisher's Scam; Pyrite and the Founding of the United States of America; Fool's Gold in the Modern World; 2 Pyrite and the Origins of Civilization; The Gods of Fire; The Origins of Human Culture; The Earliest Chemical Industry; Big Pharma; Pyrite and the Origins of the Modern Arms Industry; Pyrite Feeds the World; Pyrite, Civilization, and Culture; 3 What Is Pyrite?; The Importance of NamesClassical OriginsMarcasite and the Arab Interlude; Late Medieval Confusion; Renaissance Revisions; The Iron Mystery; Renaissance Clarification; Elements and Minerals; Berthollet Redux; 4 Crystals and Atoms; Introduction; Pyrite Habits; Pyrite and the Foundations of X-Ray Crystallography; Pyrite Structure: Counting Atoms; Cubes and Atoms; Dodecahedra Exist, Almost; Octahedra and How Pyrite Crystals Grow; Pyrite Raspberries; Designer Pyrite; 5 Hell and Black Smokers; Ancient Ideas of Mineral Formation; Pyrite and Volcanoes; Pyrite and the Problem of Geologic TimePyrite and the Origin of the Earth's Interior HeatPyrite in Geothermal Springs; Deep-Ocean Hydrothermal Vents; Black Smoker Chimneys and Massive Pyrite Deposits; Massive Pyrite Deposits as Fossil Hydrothermal Systems; 6 Microbes and Minerals; Rotten Eggs; Blue Mud; Source of Hydrogen Sulfide; Bacteria Hold the Key; Bacteria and Pyrite; Pyrite Isotopes; 7 Acid Earth; Chemical Pyrite Oxidation; Microbial Pyrite Oxidation; Acid Rivers; Eternal Fires; Acid Rain; Smog; Acid Sulfate Soils; Acidogene; 8 Pyrite and the Global Environment; Pyrite Formation and BurialPyrite as a Key Component of the Earth SystemDeath Zones in the Unfriendly Sea; Pyrite Formation and the Evolution of Life; Pyrite Sulfur Isotope Signatures and the Silver Bullet; Other Earths; 9 Pyrite and the Origins of Life; Abiogenesis; The Iron-Sulfur World; The Oldest Pyrite; The Frankenstein Experiment; Pyrite and the Synthesis of Biomolecules; Pyrite and the Earliest Organisms; Pyrite, Biofilms, and Ancient Lagoons; 10 Full Circle; Pyrite, Alchemy, and Metal Extraction; Pyrite and the Electronics Industry; The Pyrite Resolution Board; Pyrite, Free Radicals, and LifeExtraterrestrial PyriteNot So Foolish Gold; Epilogue; IndexGeochemist David Rickard explores pyrite's influence on human history, culture and science, and reveals how fool's gold became a universal symbol for everything overvalued.Oxford scholarship online.PyritesPyritesHistoryMineralogyPyrites.PyritesHistory.Mineralogy.549/.32Rickard David T(David Terence),1943-1618712MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817893403321Pyrite3950595UNINA