: a common mineral that consists of iron disulfide, has a pale brass-yellow color and metallic luster, and is burned in making sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid
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The fossilization process had turned the animal into pyrite—fool’s gold.
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Leigh Phillips, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024
In addition to the polymetallic orebody, previous exploration identified massive sulphide bodies (principally pyrite), totaling about 100 million tons (1,2), containing base metal and silver values not economic at the time.
—Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
Mineralization is recorded as hosted within a graphitic sediment horizon with quartz-carbonate veins and semi-massive to massive pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and pyrrhotite.
—Sacramento Bee, 13 June 2024
The twelve stones, unearthed by archaeologists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, included quartz and pyrite among other rocks, many of which had been fashioned into tools or showed signs of wear and tear from human use.
—Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2013
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Leigh Phillips, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024
In addition to the polymetallic orebody, previous exploration identified massive sulphide bodies (principally pyrite), totaling about 100 million tons (1,2), containing base metal and silver values not economic at the time.
—Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
Mineralization is recorded as hosted within a graphitic sediment horizon with quartz-carbonate veins and semi-massive to massive pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and pyrrhotite.
—Sacramento Bee, 13 June 2024
The twelve stones, unearthed by archaeologists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, included quartz and pyrite among other rocks, many of which had been fashioned into tools or showed signs of wear and tear from human use.
—Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2013
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pyrite
noun
py·rite
ˈpī-ˌrīt 
: a common mineral that consists of iron combined with sulfur, has a pale brass-yellow color and metallic luster, and is used especially in making sulfuric acid
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