Vocabulary : Pyroarsenate to Pyrogallate

Pyroarsenate : A salt of pyroarsenic acid.
Pyroarsenic : Pertaining to or designating, an acid of arsenic analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
Pyroborate : A salt of pyroboric acid.
Pyroboric : Pertaining to derived from, or designating, an acid, H2B4O7 (called also tetraboric acid), which is the acid ingredient of ordinary borax, and is obtained by heating boric acid.
Pyrocatechin : A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.

Pyrochlore : A niobate of calcium, cerium, and other bases, occurring usually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and resinous luster; -- so called from its becoming grass-green on being subjected to heat under the blowpipe.
Pyrocitric : Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.
Pyroelectric : Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated. ;; A substance which becomes electrically polar when heated, exhibiting opposite charges of statical electricity at two separate parts, especially the two extremities.
Pyroelectricity : Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
Pyrogallate : A salt of pyrogallic acid; an ether of pyrogallol.

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