Pyrite Definition

pīrīt
pyrites
noun
pyrites
A hard, brittle, yellow mineral, FeS2, dimorphic with marcasite and occurring abundantly as a native ore, used to make sulfuric acid; iron sulfide.
Webster's New World
(usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metallic-looking sulphide, such as the above, which is the most common.
Wiktionary
(solid state chemistry) (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metal dichalcogenide that is isostructural to the common mineral.
Copper diselenide can occur both as a marcasite and a pyrite.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • fool's gold
  • iron pyrite

Other Word Forms of Pyrite

Noun

Singular:
pyrite
Plural:
pyrites

Origin of Pyrite

  • recorded since 1555, from Old French (=modern) pyrite (12c.), from Latin pyrites, from Ancient Greek πυρίτης λιθός (pyrites lithos) "stone of fire, flint" (so called because it glitters), notably the first part: adjective πυρίτης (puritēs, “of or in fire”), from πῦρ (pur, “fire”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English perides, pirite from Old French pirite from Latin pyrītēs flint pyrites

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pyrite Sentence Examples

  • The mining product next in value to coal in 1908 was copper, taken chiefly in Carbon county in a zone of brecciated quartzite underlying schist, the original ore being chalcopyrite, with possibly some pyrite, a secondary enrichment, which has produced important bodies of chalcocite in the upper workings, but these are replaced by chalcopyrite at greater depth.

  • Pyrite, FeS2, contains 46.7% of iron.

  • Other mineral products are graphite, garnet used as an abrasive, pyrite and zinc ore.

  • Finely crystallized specimens of pyrite are obtained from many other localities, especially from Cornwall, Elba and Traversella, near Ivrea, in Piedmont.

  • Impurities.-The properties of iron and steel, like those of most of the metals, are profoundly influenced by the presence of small and sometimes extremely small quantities of certain impurities, of which the most important are phosphorus and sulphur, the former derived chiefly from apatite (phosphate of lime) and other minerals which accompany the iron ore itself, the latter from the pyrite found not only in most iron ores but in nearly all coal and coke.

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