00:00Don't ever touch this gemstone with your bare hands.
00:02It's called crocoite and it glows like fire, bright orange red, hypnotizing collectors worldwide.
00:08But here's the deadly truth, crocoite is toxic.
00:11It's packed with lead and chromium that can poison you just by touching it.
00:15Back in the 1800s, people ground it into powder to make a pigment called chrome orange.
00:19Van Gogh even used it in his paintings, but they didn't know it was killing them slowly.
00:24Today, crocoite is a prized mineral, but you'll never see collectors handling it without gloves.
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