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A higher level would show that the organic sulphur had been eliminated, leaving behind the pyritic sulphur.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he applied ammonia, explained Keller, the raw coal broke down into fine particles, separating the purer hydrocarbons from rock and pyritic sulfur and significantly reducing its ash content.

From Time Magazine Archive

A very low level of radioactivity would indicate that most of the pyritic sulphur had been driven off, taking with it the radioactive tags.

From Time Magazine Archive

It cannot proceed from the decomposition of sulphurets of iron, or pyritic strata.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

From the pyritic material which floats on the top of the forehearth are made cakes for the third time, and from them when they have been roasted and re-smelted is made copper.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius