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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pyritize .
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Examples
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Some of the cephalopods are pyritized, which is apparently somewhat rare.
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While he resized my ring and shrank my bracelet a teeny bit, I poked in his drawers of not-yet-used stones - Labradorite is very pretty, and he had some pyritized ammonites, which when cut into sections really looked very like little machine cogs.
Zmas, Ring, Brum, etc jackfirecat 2006
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At 240 feet the hole encountered 25 feet of weak gold mineralization and then bottomed in 135 feet of pyritized, carbonaceous siltstone.
Ironwood Gold Completes Mobile Metal Ion Survey at Rock Creek Project, Nevada - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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The hole intersected approximately 300 m of altered and pyritized felsic volcanic rocks.
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The hole intersected approximately 300 m of altered and pyritized felsic volcanic rocks.
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There’s something miraculous about it, virtuose even when it occurs naturally, as in a group of pyritized fossil sea creatures.
Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001
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