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Pyrite   /pˈaɪraɪt/   Listen
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Pyrite  n.  (pl. pyrites)  (Min.) A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide. "Hence sable coal his massy couch extends, And stars of gold the sparkling pyrite blends."






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... or even excelled his expectation. He had four rooms and a private garden enclosed by a thicket of bamboo. His bathroom walls were slabs of glossy actinolite, inlaid with cinnabar, jade, galena, pyrite and blue malachite, in representations of fantastic birds. His bedroom was a tent thirty feet high. Two walls were dark green fabric; a third was golden rust; the fourth opened upon the ...
— Sjambak • John Holbrook Vance



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