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Lord-Velveeta t1_iuaqsf5 wrote

Guessing the gold pigment was copper based.

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DiamondFlame OP t1_iuauk10 wrote

Oddly enough, the copper crayons did not oxidize.

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COYFC t1_iubgtga wrote

That's because those ones are made of gold, it's a fugazi

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this_is_greenman t1_iubkxce wrote

Fugayzi Fugazi

It’s all the same

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MashedHair t1_iucfvld wrote

What do you do if you need something that looks like a horse?

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Slumbergoat16 t1_iudq938 wrote

You could make an uncut gems movie about the crayons

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waiting_for_rain t1_iuasxf2 wrote

Not all that glitters is gold, it seems.

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Interesting-Bus-5370 t1_iubo0r5 wrote

Hey now..

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Neither-Cup564 t1_iubpnuq wrote

You’re an all star…

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MrJohnnyDangerously t1_iud44zk wrote

So you went All-Star instead of Stairway to Heaven? Mildly interesting, that.

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Mirabolis t1_iubc70i wrote

For half the kids, that fact gets them a little bit into chemistry. The other half just feel betrayed.

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Inevergnu t1_iud5yx5 wrote

Some kids probably realize that just the outside of the crayon is green, but it's still yellow inside. You know like when you bite into moldy cheese and find it's mostly orange under the surface! Usually.

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Fortisimo07 t1_iudjvga wrote

You chompin' right into moldy cheese over there my man?

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Inevergnu t1_iue3tqh wrote

Not much lately, after I developed a kind of eye twitch from it. q:P

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FistoWutini t1_iub3hxx wrote

Oh god, the dress is back!

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Glum_Status t1_iubakkn wrote

It's Yanny's fault.

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CharieRarie t1_iuaxwhf wrote

Is it all the way through or just the outsides? Some of the squiggles look like they got a bit golder after the initial green had rubbed off?

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Squidward_Mcgee t1_iuaru5c wrote

Oxidizing children from within since '81

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Foreign_Glass53 t1_iuav7is wrote

typical fake gold

real gold would never

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bossk220 t1_iudfgn0 wrote

can't believe Crayola cheaped out here, that's wild

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tyguy94920 t1_iubonbm wrote

The hair made me blow on my screen to get it off. So good job there!

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turbocrat t1_iubyhoz wrote

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

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assezconfus t1_iucxb5v wrote

What is this from??

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Earl_I_Lark t1_iub0i9j wrote

Bronze pigment in the presence of stearic acid

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Kujo17 t1_iuc7jqx wrote

I'm blue/green colorblind, I can see both blue and green fine lol it's not as I guess "severe" as other colorblindness? But colors that are very similar usually like yellows and oranges, or sometimes browns and reds and oranges, purples and blues really fuck with me they all just kinda blend together in those closer shades. Usually it really doesn't even pop out or cause an issue or anything though

So anyway it's weird, the two on the right are completely grey almost silvery grey, the two on the left are grey but at the very top kind of light blue/blueish grey that fades into th same grey as the others after the first few scribbles (assuming you started at the top and moved down each time) If these are indeed all very green in appearance to everyone else then this is one of the few times where I'm actually surprised at the color it's supposed to be, and that's kind of cool lol

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Eating_Bagels t1_iuck7un wrote

I’m not colorblind and I see what exactly what you see. Hmmmmmmm

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assezconfus t1_iucxgcd wrote

I'm not colorblind either and also see exactly what you described...

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ScaryFoal558760 t1_iudp8k4 wrote

I'm starting to think they didn't even use real gold in those crayons

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CapnMagnitude t1_iuc1u54 wrote

I love my Old Golds. They used to give them to us in the service. Carton a week for free.

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cdgmatt t1_iubdd72 wrote

actually pretty cool dude

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Off_white_marmalade t1_iubcwaj wrote

All is not as it seems is it gunnie?🧔‍♀️😂😂

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Givemebj t1_iubm82v wrote

Was probably copper

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MyBluMind t1_iucdndn wrote

Winters first green is gold,…

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drskeme t1_iucvw6t wrote

Does it still taste like gold?

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TinnySkwal t1_iud82w7 wrote

Copper Crayola Craziness is Cracking on my Cskull

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StnMtn_ t1_iud8e7y wrote

Fake gold. Pyrite crayons?

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luptaktical t1_iubijjw wrote

That there is FOOL'S GOLD!

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ITUFFE t1_iucd9hw wrote

As life.

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harpejjist t1_iuciear wrote

How old are the crayons?

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J-Train56 t1_iucjrk4 wrote

Just like the Statue of Liberty 🙂

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ZeMoonIsGone t1_iucml04 wrote

Thought there was hair on my screen

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OddballLouLou t1_iud5ad7 wrote

I wonder if they have copper in them

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gurlblue81 t1_iud7a4q wrote

“Nature’s first green is gold”

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Boring_Machine t1_iud7ebo wrote

There is always one weird hair in any number of xrayons

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reditum t1_iud82za wrote

Green and hairy

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Hushwater t1_iudd7d5 wrote

Do they still have that wonderful crayon smell?

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FoxOk8066 t1_iudjfvi wrote

Gold does patina depending on the type of gold it is. I think white and rose gold patina over time because they are alloys and I think 14 or 18 karat gold patinas as well.

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day7seven t1_iue3rda wrote

They should rename the colour to Fool's Gold.

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Rybocephus t1_iue9tay wrote

Nothing gold can stay.

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frozenfearz25 t1_iuebx6c wrote

they used to have a reccipe for uranium based crayons back in the day.

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SeanJ44 t1_iuepas9 wrote

Like the dress

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SurrealRareAvis t1_iuer0nm wrote

I can’t help but wonder what these would look like melted~ in a pool of other-color crayons…

(Excuse me, I think my college years are showing…)

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gofarquaadoff t1_iuerg9a wrote

green? we loooking at the same picture here, OP?

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DiamondFlame OP t1_iuesebu wrote

Please check the picture I posted further down in the comments. It shows them in better light

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nah-knee t1_iueup9y wrote

You can tell it’s old from the way there’s a hair stuck, I can almost feel how waxy and covered and in shit the crayons are

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2022Conundrum2022 t1_iuewfcu wrote

Who else thought they had a loose hair on their screen?

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SuperPinkLuigi t1_iuewoh3 wrote

You just need to polish them, that's all.

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gorka_la_pork t1_iuf0j1w wrote

There are old crayons and gold crayons, but there are no old, gold crayons.

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cascade_olympus t1_iuf5eaj wrote

Nah, you're just reading it upside down. That's the color Ploa

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KellyNdylan t1_iuc42c6 wrote

Those were special colors. I had those when they first came out. That's how they're supposed to be.

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HolyCrapItsJohn t1_iuc5nxo wrote

Probably just gold plated. You get this with cheap knock offs crayons that scammers sell to tourists.

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