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pyrite
  1. (mineralogy) The common mineral iron disulfide (FeS2), of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system.
  2. (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metallic-looking sulphide, such as the above, which is the most common.
  3. (chemistry) (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metal dichalcogenide that is isostructural to the common mineral.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I saw a beautiful necklace adorned with pyrite, fool's gold that glistened like the real thing.”
      “Vein minerals are barite, calcite, chalcopyrite, kaolinite, pyrite, sphalerite, and wurtzite.”
      “The ore zone is a combination of veinlets, lenses, and nests of pyrite and quartz.”
pyritohedron
  1. (mathematics) an irregular dodecahedron, consisting of identical but irregular pentagons
  2. the shape of a crystal of pyrite
pyritization
  1. (geology) The hydrothermal process whereby a rock is transformed into a pyrite.
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pyritoid
  1. (dated) pyritohedron
pyritohedra
  1. plural of pyritohedron
pyritizations
pyritoids
  1. plural of pyritoid
pyrites
  1. plural of pyrite
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Rather, the quartz crystals are cleanly truncated at the contacts, or they wrap themselves around the pyrites.”
      “Other Aboriginal groups around Australia used fire drills, flints and pyrites to make fire.”
      “In terms of finance alone, last night was the difference between digging gold or iron pyrites.”
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