Definition of Pyritic

1. a. Of or pertaining to pyrites; consisting of, or resembling, pyrites.

Definition of Pyritic

1. Adjective. of, relating to, or consisting of pyrite or pyrites ¹

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Definition of Pyritic

1. pyrite [adj] - See also: pyrite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyritic

pyrimidinediones
pyrimidines
pyrimidinic
pyrimidinone
pyrimidinones
pyrimidinylpiperazine
pyrimidinylpiperazines
pyrin
pyrindene
pyrindenes
pyrinuron
pyriproxyfen
pyritaceous
pyrite
pyrites
pyritic (current term)
pyritical
pyritiferous
pyritinol
pyritise
pyritised
pyritises
pyritization
pyritizations
pyritize
pyritized
pyritizes
pyritohedra
pyritohedral
pyritohedron

Literary usage of Pyritic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Metallurgy of Copper by Heinrich Oscar Hofman (1914)
"The management of the furnace is practically the same as that of the partial pyritic furnace, given in §114; it is passed over here. ..."

2. Modern Copper Smelting by Edward Dyer Peters (1895)
"It is largely with this class of material that pyritic smelting has had to do. ... The scarcity of pyritic ores has nearly always forced the metallurgist to ..."

3. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1912)
"pyritic SMELTING IN LEADVILLE. By CH Doolittle and RP Jarvis. TAIME, vol. 41, p. 709. 14 pages. pyritic SMELTING IN TILT COVE, NEWFOUNDLAND. By FS Nicholls. ..."

4. The Metallurgy of Lead & Silver by Henry Francis. Collins (1900)
"Bye-products of pyritic Smelting.—A bye-product of pyritic smelting not yet ... Probably the manufacture of sulphuric acid from the gases of a pyritic ..."

5. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1905)
"THE AMERICAN PROCESS OF COPPER EXTRACTION OR pyritic SMELTING The object of ... In its narrowest sense pyritic smelting means the smelting of pyritic ores ..."

6. A Study of the Magmatic Sulfid Ores by Cyrus Fisher Tolman, Austin Flint Rogers (1916)
"It is certain that some of these pyritic ores are hydrothermal in origin. The Rio Tinto deposits, for example, are due to metasomatic replacement of crushed ..."

7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"Louis Meeting, October, 1917) INTRODUCTION BODIES of pyritic ore in schistose rocks ... The genesis of these pyritic bodies has provoked much discussion, ..."

8. The Metallurgy of Gold by Thomas Kirke Rose (1898)
"pyritic SMELTING. THE best known and most extensively practised smelting processes for the treatment of gold and silver ores—viz., lead smelting, ..."

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