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Definition of Pyromorphites
1. pyromorphite [n] - See also: pyromorphite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyromorphites
Literary usage of Pyromorphites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1856)
"No analysis •nas made of this mineral, as it will be embraced in an examination
of the American pyromorphites, to be published at some future time. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1888)
"Pyrometers in blast-furnace practice, xi. 509. pyromorphites : Replaced by vanadium
compounds in Southern New Mexico, x, 443; ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"This formula likewise includes the pyromorphites. or green lead-ores, which are
isomorphous with apatit«. Apatite was so named by Werner from aira-reii/, ..."
4. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"Isomorphous intermixtures of pyromorphite and mimetite are much more common ;
the pyromorphites from Cumberland contain about 9 per cent of ..."
5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1879)
"MINERALOGY. The Pretence of Didymium and Cerium in Minerals.—As Homer has shown
the presence of these metals in different pyromorphites and ..."
6. Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology, Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1878)
"... with pyromorphites, tetrahedrite, antimonial sulphuret of silver, native
silver, arsenical cobalt, native arsenic, and pyrite, occasionally auriferous ..."
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