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  • adjective Common misspelling of pyrolytic.

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Examples

  • It is made from a hard, polished, black material called pyrolitic carbon.

    Death's Noisy Herald gerard varni 2011

  • Finally profitable uses of the new material, pyrolitic graphite, were found - as filters and as crude monochromators.

    Bertram N. Brockhouse - Autobiography 1995

  • In Ghana, pyrolitic converters are constructed with local materials.

    Chapter 8 1984

  • This conclusion has strong support from the fact that of all the Earth soils which have been tested by the pyrolitic-release experiment, the one that comes the closest to reproducing the Martian results is Antarctic soil, which includes spores transported from elsewhere by the wind, but no active life.

    Life on Mars 1977

  • The pyrolitic-release experiment showed conclusively that something in the Martian soil creates organic molecules in the presence of sunlight.

    Life on Mars 1977

  • The chemical theory was further weakened by the latest run of the pyrolitic-release experiment, in which the response was positive after first moistening, then heating the sample.

    Life on Mars 1977

  • In order to prove that the process being observed in the pyrolitic-release experiments really was photosynthesis, the experiment was repeated with the light turned off.

    Life on Mars 1977

  • The chemical theory was further weakened by the latest run of the pyrolitic-release experiment, in which the response was positive after first moistening, then heating the sample.

    Life on Mars 1977

  • This conclusion has strong support from the fact that of all the Earth soils which have been tested by the pyrolitic-release experiment, the one that comes the closest to reproducing the Martian results is Antarctic soil, which includes spores transported from elsewhere by the wind, but no active life.

    Life on Mars 1977

  • Fortunately, one biological experiment on this mission did not drown its sample: the pyrolitic-release experiment, which provided the strongest evidence of all for Martian life.

    Life on Mars 1977

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