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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to fire or heat: specifically noting those characters of a mineral which are observed by means of the blowpipe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Min.) Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe.

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  • adjective dated of, relating to, or revealed by pyrognostics

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