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Lord-Velveeta t1_iuaqsf5 wrote

Guessing the gold pigment was copper based.

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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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Earl_I_Lark t1_iub0i9j wrote

Bronze pigment in the presence of stearic acid

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cdgmatt t1_iubdd72 wrote

actually pretty cool dude

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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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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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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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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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MyBluMind t1_iucdndn wrote

Winters first green is gold,…

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J-Train56 t1_iucjrk4 wrote

Just like the Statue of Liberty 🙂

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drskeme t1_iucvw6t wrote

Does it still taste like gold?

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Inevergnu t1_iud5yx5 wrote

Replying to Mirabolis (#329,179)

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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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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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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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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ScaryFoal558760 t1_iudp8k4 wrote

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

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day7seven t1_iue3rda wrote

They should rename the colour to Fool's Gold.

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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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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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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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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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