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Pyritic

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py·rite  (prt)
n.
A brass-colored mineral, FeS2, occurring widely and used as an iron ore and in producing sulfur dioxide for sulfuric acid. Also called fool's gold, iron pyrites.
[Middle English perides, pirite, from Old French pirite, from Latin pyrts, flint; see pyrites.]
py·ritic (-rtk), py·riti·cal (--kl) adj.
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