LEADER 04371nam 2200697 450 001 9910817893403321 005 20230807205115.0 010 $a0-19-755948-4 010 $a0-19-020369-2 010 $a0-19-020368-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000599378 035 $a(EBL)1980787 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001438631 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12547868 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438631 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11378922 035 $a(PQKB)10213589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1980787 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002340635 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1980787 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11030408 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL746219 035 $a(OCoLC)904548064 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000599378 100 $a20150319h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPyrite $ea natural history of fool's gold /$fDavid Rickard 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-020367-6 311 $a1-336-14933-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Names 327 $aClassical 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 Time 327 $aPyrite 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 Burial 327 $aPyrite 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 Life 327 $aExtraterrestrial PyriteNot So Foolish Gold; Epilogue; Index 330 8 $aGeochemist David Rickard explores pyrite's influence on human history, culture and science, and reveals how fool's gold became a universal symbol for everything overvalued. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aPyrites 606 $aPyrites$xHistory 606 $aMineralogy 615 0$aPyrites. 615 0$aPyrites$xHistory. 615 0$aMineralogy. 676 $a549/.32 700 $aRickard$b David T$g(David Terence),$f1943-$01618712 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817893403321 996 $aPyrite$93950595 997 $aUNINA