Pyrite Synonyms

pīrīt
A common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. iron pyrite
  2. fool's gold

Words Related to Pyrite

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. arsenopyrite
  2. chalcopyrite
  3. sphalerite
  4. barite
  5. magnetite
  6. felspar
  7. baryte
  8. epidote
  9. feldspar
  10. limonite
  11. chromite
  12. goethite
  13. galena
  14. skarn

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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