noun
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another name for pyrite
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any of a number of other disulphides of metals, esp of copper and tin
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Etymology
Origin of pyrites
1545–55; < Latin pyrītes (plural); see pyrite
Example Sentences
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Sulphur from pyrites deposits was largely ignored, since brimstone is cheaper and easier to use.
From Time Magazine Archive
They made a small amount of pyrites containing radioactive sulphur and mixed it with a coke-oven charge of coal.
From Time Magazine Archive
There, close to the boundary of the province of Manila and district of Moron, I found a face of disintegrated quartz glittering with large crystals of iron pyrites.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
Then too, there is pyrites, or lapis fissilis, from which sulphur is melted.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
But if any pyrites are present the effect is most detrimental, the gold becoming coated with a film of sulphur or a glazing of iron oxide.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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