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Definition of Pirophorus

||Py*roph"o*rus (?), n. [NL. See Pyrophorous.] (Old Chem.) 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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • a substance capable of taking fire spontaneously on exposure to the air, especially in a finely divided state


Pyrophorus

  • a taxonomic genus, within family Lampyridae - the fireflies
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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