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Example sentences for "iron pyrites"

  • With grey copper ores and the oxidised ores, iron pyrites is added.

  • For example: theoretically 1 gram of iron pyrites (FeS{2}) would yield 8.

  • In some places, this clay drift yields balls of iron pyrites, which renders the water unpalatable.

  • It contains amorphous masses of iron pyrites, of a yellow color and metallic brilliancy, which soon tarnishes on exposure to the air.

  • It occurs in beds and veins, accompanied chiefly by galena, iron pyrites, copper pyrites, and heavy spar.

  • Iron pyrites is often impregnated with petroleum, or contains a bituminous nucleus.

  • But before iron was known as a metal, it would appear that flint was in use as a fire-producing agent in combination with blocks of iron pyrites (sulphide of iron) instead of steel.

  • The oxide of iron may, however, have been merely the result of |283| the decomposition of a piece of iron pyrites.

  • A piece of iron pyrites with a groove worn in it and a peculiarly shaped implement of flint with evident marks of use at the larger end were found with an interment near Basingstoke Station.

  • A bit of agate, common quartz, or iron pyrites, answers the purpose of a flint, should one be lost.

  • Defn: Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the Cornish miners.

  • Defn: A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide.

  • Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the Cornish miners.

  • It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites.

  • Between Chesterfield and Fullerton there are several fairly decent deposits of iron pyrites, and some of these contain small deposits of gold.

  • Three or four leagues below Fort Good Hope, iron pyrites is found on the beach, and the Peaux de Lièvre Indians formerly used it in striking fire.

  • Along with the magnetite is a band of iron pyrites, a few inches thick, with traces of copper.

  • Iron pyrites appears to have been used quite generally among the Eskimo.

  • An angular bit of iron pyrites is inlaid to represent the left eye, and a similar piece appears to have been lost from the right eye.

  • The front teeth in some cases were filed, in others filled with round plugs of obsidian, iron pyrites, or jadeite, for ornamental purposes.

  • They were usually made from greenstone, obsidian, or iron pyrites, all highly polished, the only teeth ornamented being the incisors and canines, usually in the upper jaw.

  • The term was originally applied to the mineral pyrite, or iron pyrites, in allusion to its giving sparks when struck with steel.

  • A common mineral of a pale brass- yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide.

  • Iron pyrites is often supplemented by the "spent oxide" from the gas works.

  • He was acquainted with green vitriol and iron pyrites.

  • Pyrites had the same meaning among the ancients that it has among the moderns; at least as far as iron pyrites or bisulphuret of iron is concerned.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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