Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native iron sulphid, a mineral crystallizing in hexagonal prisms and occurring also massive, of a bronze color and metallic luster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also
magnetic pyrites .
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- noun mineralogy
pyrrhotite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a brownish iron sulfide mineral (FeS) having weak magnetic properties
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Iron is found combined with sulphur in pyrrhotine and pyrites, and together with arsenic in mispickel.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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