Definitions for Pyrites

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Pyrites py·ri·tes

Spelling: [pahy-rahy-teez, puh-, pahy-rahyts]

IPA: /paɪˈraɪ tiz, pə-, ˈpaɪ raɪts/

Pyrites is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 235 anagrams from letters in Pyrites (eiprsty).

Definitions for Pyrites

noun

1. pyrite.
2. marcasite.
3. any of various other metallic sulfides, as of copper or tin.
4. a very common brass-yellow mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , with a metallic luster, burned to sulfur dioxide in the manufacture of sulfuric acid: chemically similar to marcasite, but crystallizing in the isometric system.

Origin of Pyrites

1545-55; Latin pyrītes (plural); see pyrite

Examples for Pyrites

That pyrites which contains metal must be smelted in the furnace.

He certainly would not run away with his pockets filled with pyrites.

The pyrites are not the only minerals from which Vitriol may be procured.

This is more particularly the case with the Spanish and Portuguese pyrites.

pyrites, when thrown upon a spirit, are believed to drive it away.

A mixture of common salt assists the decomposition of the pyrites.

Then too, there is pyrites, or lapis fissilis, from which sulphur is melted.

The one is galena, a sulphuret of lead; the other, pyrites, a sulphuret of iron.

Also in the same manner, pyrites are smelted separately if there be much of them.

Lastly, gold is found in pyrites, though rarely in large quantities.