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Why are gold and copper crayola crayons green?

We found our daughter's box of crayons while cleaning out boxes that we had not unpacked since we moved, and this sparked our desire to start coloring. When we opened the box, two green crayons were in there, but they were labeled copper and gold. We thought that was strange, but as we started coloring with them, we found they they WERE gold and copper, only BENEATH the green outer layer. Why did Crayola do this?

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Copper is green. You will see this when copper rusts or tarnishes -- it gets green. Any cuprous mineral is greenish blue. It may sometimes have a reddish tinge when found in rocks.
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