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- English Word Pyromantic Definition Of or pertaining to pyromancy.
- English Word Pyromantic Definition One who pretends to divine by fire.
- English Word Pyrometer Definition An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.
- English Word Pyrometer Definition An instrument for measuring degrees of heat above those indicated by the mercurial thermometer.
- English Word Pyrometric Definition Alt. of Pyrometrical
- English Word Pyrometrical Definition Pertaining to, or obtained by, the pyrometer; as, pyrometrical instruments; pyrometrical measurements.
- English Word Pyrometry Definition The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.
- English Word Pyromorphite Definition Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.
- English Word Pyromorphous Definition Having the property of crystallizing by the agency of fire.
- English Word Pyromucate Definition A salt of pyromucic acid.
- English Word Pyromucic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of mucic acid, or by the oxidation of furfurol.
- English Word Pyronomics Definition The science of heat.
- English Word Pyrope Definition A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under Garnet.
- English Word Pyrophane Definition A mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is said to change its color and become transparent by heat.
- English Word Pyrophanous Definition Rendered transparent by heat.
- English Word Pyrophone Definition A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.
- English Word Pyrophoric Definition Alt. of Pyrophorous
- English Word Pyrophorous Definition Light-producing; of or pertaining to pyrophorus.
- English Word Pyrophorus Definition Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead.
- English Word Pyrophosphate Definition A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.