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
Etymology
Origin of pyrites
1545–55; < Latin pyrītes (plural); see pyrite
Example Sentences
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She exports timber, pulp, cellulose; iron ore, pyrites, copper, nickel, molybdenum; fish, whale oil�products which Germany can use.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The cock, also regulated by a spring, was fitted with a piece of iron pyrites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
A little calcined iron pyrites, called magistral, is also added.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
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