Word.ws English Dictionary

pyritology

pyritology noun: the art of using a blowpipe, and often a charcoal block, to analyse minerals and metal salts.

Noun

pyritology (uncountable)

  1. the art of using a blowpipe, and often a charcoal block, to analyse minerals and metal salts

Origin of pyritology

From pyrite + -ology.

Questions about pyritology

What does pyritology mean?
Pyritology means the art of using a blowpipe, and often a charcoal block, to analyse minerals and metal salts.
What part of speech is pyritology?
Pyritology is a noun.

Words near pyritology in the dictionary

  1. pyritohedral
  2. pyritohedron
  3. pyritohedrons
  4. pyritoid
  5. pyritoids
  6. pyritology
  7. pyritose
  8. pyritous
  9. pyrity
  10. pyrizhky
  11. Pyrmont

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pyritology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pyritology.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pyritology. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.