Or maby you mean pirates they were a nasty hard sea faring bunch perhaps they got so hungry they resorted to eating their maps and ships! :rolmao: :rolmao:
Iron Pyrites
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Be a bit unfortunate if you happened to be a pirate with a wooden leg and one of your mates got peckish...
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Kath
It was something I read during a google search which I can no longer find but I did find the following.
"Under damp conditions pyrites will decompose to a yellowish powder or spicular green vitriol, and therefore pyritised fossils have to be treated with a special damp-resisting preparation to prevent disintegration."
Thinking about it the copperas was made from decomposing of the pyrites for a year or more them adding scrap iron, so presumably the break down of the damp pyrites gives iron sulphates and sulphuric and sulphurous acid. The addition of iron reacts with the acids to increase the yield of copperas or iron sulphate.
So the damp pyrites may form an acid in which in turn can decompose cloth wood paper etc.
There going to be a chemist out there who will tell me im wrong?
It was something I read during a google search which I can no longer find but I did find the following.
"Under damp conditions pyrites will decompose to a yellowish powder or spicular green vitriol, and therefore pyritised fossils have to be treated with a special damp-resisting preparation to prevent disintegration."
Thinking about it the copperas was made from decomposing of the pyrites for a year or more them adding scrap iron, so presumably the break down of the damp pyrites gives iron sulphates and sulphuric and sulphurous acid. The addition of iron reacts with the acids to increase the yield of copperas or iron sulphate.
So the damp pyrites may form an acid in which in turn can decompose cloth wood paper etc.
There going to be a chemist out there who will tell me im wrong?
if your ever down this way... i have heard of loads of people just picking it out of the river up stream, i have never found any, but then again i have never looked im told that if you spend a while looking around you can find some!
So Paganwolf did You find any?
I also went but to Walton on the Naze Sunday afternoon. I found a few pieces. The tide was up so there was little chance of looking at the recent cliff falls.
I tried spark making at home and occasionally get a few dull sparks i feel quite pleased with myself. I just need the perfect tinder.
I also went but to Walton on the Naze Sunday afternoon. I found a few pieces. The tide was up so there was little chance of looking at the recent cliff falls.
I tried spark making at home and occasionally get a few dull sparks i feel quite pleased with myself. I just need the perfect tinder.
No didnt get down there this weekend i was hyjacked by kids!!! im going to try again this weekend, well done for finding some 
): , char cloth will probably be your best bet for the sparks from pyrites, 
): , char cloth will probably be your best bet for the sparks from pyrites,
Got em this morning Den :biggthump Cheers matie ive had a bash and produced some sparks im gonna get a smoker going when i get home tonight 
thanks again Den :biggthump
ive had a bash and produced some sparks im gonna get a smoker going when i get home tonight thanks again Den :biggthumpSimilar threads
