Sorry, but I have to ask:
Why cant we buy wire or sheets of pyrite at the hardware or craft store?
The stuff is gorgeous, shiny and doesn’t rust. Put all that together and it spells: “AWESOME”.
I know there’s a scientific answer to this mystery and somebody around here is bound to know it.
You can’t find pyrite in wires and sheets Because it is a crystal and has no ductility. It would crumble into little shards when you tried to shape it.
Pyrite is very brittle.......................
Pyrite is very brittle - only found naturally in small irregular crystals. It melts poorly too - Near impossible to get into a sheet (by either melting or by rolling) or extrude into a wire.
Well, it’s because Pyrite only comes in crystal form, if you tried to refine it into a metal that you could make sheets or wire out of, you’d just end up with regular old iron.