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
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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
The ore at the latter place is auriferous iron pyrites, called by the natives Inga.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
In the first are found veins of calcite and quartz from half-an-inch to three inches thick, in which especially in the calcite the gold is visible mixed with iron and copper pyrites, galena and blende.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
These pyrites or 'sulphurets' are cleansed by concentration in various kinds of apparatus, all depending on the greater specific gravity of the portion sought to be saved.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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