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pyrolyses

pyrolyses is the plural of pyrolysis.

pyrolyses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pyrolyse.

Meaning of pyrolysis

Noun

pyrolysis (countable and uncountable, plural pyrolyses)

  1. (physical) The decomposition of a material or compound by heat, in the absence of oxygen or other reagents.
    • Techniques that have successfully identified ionic intermediates in solution have been applied to gas-phase pyrolyses.1972, A. C. Knipe, “Chapter 4: Elimination Reactions”, in B. Capon, C. W. Rees, editors, Organic Reaction Mechanisms 1971, page 143

Meaning of pyrolyse

Verb

pyrolyse (third-person singular simple present pyrolyses, present participle pyrolysing, simple past and past participle pyrolysed)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo pyrolysis.
  2. (transitive) To decompose or transform a substance by subjecting it to heat.

Forms of pyrolyses

alternative formpyrolyzes

Phrases with pyrolyses

Questions about pyrolyses

What is pyrolyses the plural of?
Pyrolyses is the plural of pyrolysis.

Words near pyrolyses in the dictionary

  1. pyrolysates
  2. pyrolyse
  3. pyrolysed
  4. pyrolyser
  5. pyrolysers
  6. pyrolyses
  7. pyrolysing
  8. pyrolysis
  9. pyrolysis oil
  10. pyrolysize
  11. pyrolytic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pyrolyses (page history and authors); pyrolysis (page history and authors); pyrolyse (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.

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