We Were Totally Wrong About How This Mineral Formed
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Subscribe to the SciShow Rocks Box to receive your own Tiger Eye Chunk here! https://complexly.store/collections/frontpage Tiger's eye is a gift shop classic, so you'd think we've known all there is to understand about it for a while. But this mineral got stuck with some inaccurate PR back in the 1800s that took nearly 200 years for researchers to undo. And it all hinges on asbestos. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: David Johnston, Cye Stoner, Jp Lynch, Bethany Matthews, Chris Curry, J.V. Rosenbalm, Blood Doctor Kelly, Alan Wong, Toyas Dhake, Reed Spilmann, Garrett Galloway, Friso, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern
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