- Pyritology
- Pyritology Pyr`i*tol"o*gy, n. [Gr. ? of fire + -logy.] The science of blowpipe analysis. [1913 Webster]
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Pyritology
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pyritology — noun the art of using a blowpipe, and often a charcoal block, to analyse minerals and metal salts … Wiktionary
pyrite(s) — n. sulphide of a metal with metallic appearance. ♦ pyritic(al), a. ♦ pyritiferous ,a. yielding pyrites. ♦ pyritize, v.t. convert into pyrite(s). ♦ pyritoid, a. like pyrite(s). ♦ pyritology, n. study of pyrites … Dictionary of difficult words
