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); 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
She exports timber, pulp, cellulose; iron ore, pyrites, copper, nickel, molybdenum; fish, whale oil�products which Germany can use.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gold and iron pyrites, therefore, need never be mistaken for each other by any man who has a piece of steel about him.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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