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Definition of Pyrolyze
1. to affect compounds by the application of heat [v -LYZED, -LYZING, -LYZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrolyze
Literary usage of Pyrolyze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fuel Usage and the Health of Navajo Women and Children: Development of Clean by Wayne G. Bragg (1995)
"Apparently, it is easy to pyrolyze wood but hard to supply it with enough air so
that the rapidly-evolving volatile products of pyrolysis can all be burned. ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... pyrolyze to biphenyls and copper, hydrolyze readily, and oxidize cleanly and
rapidly at 0° with dry air, benzoyl peroxide, bromine, or cupric bromide to ..."
3. Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System by National Research Council (U.S.) (2007)
"It has also been speculated that, at particular depths in giant planet atmospheres,
CH4 may pyrolyze to form latticed carbon. However, it must be noted that ..."
4. Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal by United States, Senate, Congress, Committee on Appropriations (1885)
"... to inexpensively provide residence time at temperatures 1600 to 2000° F.
to pyrolyze the hydrocarbon pollutants. In the production battery operations, ..."
5. Police Body Armor Standards and Testing by Office of Technology Assessment, United States, Congress (1992)
"It does not melt but does pyrolyze (decompose) at very high temperature. It loses
some strength as its temperature is increased but remains strong enough to ..."
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