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pyrology rare.|paɪˈrɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. mod.L. pyrologia: see pyro- 1 and -logy.]
The science or study of fire or heat; now spec. that branch of chemistry which deals with the application of fire to chemical analysis, etc.
[1669R. Wittie (title) Pyrologia Mimica; or an Answer to Hydrologia Chymica of W. Simpson..In Defence of Scarborough-Spaw. 1692D. Bottoni (title) Pyrologia Topographica, id est, de Igni dissertatio, juxta loca, cum eorum descriptionibus.] 1731Hist. Litteraria III. 348 The Discoveries made by the modern Philosophers in Pneumaticks, Hydrology, Pyrology, &c. 1797W. Okely (title) Pyrology; or the Connection between Natural and Moral Philosophy. 1875W. A. Ross (title) Pyrology or Fire Chemistry.
Hence pyroˈlogical a., pertaining to or involving pyrology; pyˈrologist, one versed in pyrology.
a1799Black is cited by Webster (1828) for Pyrologist. 1881W. A. Ross in Knowledge No. 7. 137 The young ‘pyrologist’, or blowpipe chemist. 1881Eng. Mechanic 27 May 284/1 Even with his pyrological methods, he would have difficulty in determining the carbonic acid in a pinch of soot. 1883Ibid. 20 July (title) Easy Lessons in Blowpipe Analysis and Pyrological Mineralogy. |