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Webster 1828 Edition

White-pyrites

WHITE-PYRITE

, WHITE-PYRITES,
Noun.
[white and pyrite.] An ore of a tin-white color, passing into a brass-yellow and steel-gray, occurring in octahedral crystals, sometimes stalactitical and botryoidal. It contains 46 parts of iron, and 54 of sulphur.

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