Pyrite vs Perite - What's the difference?
pyrite | perite |
(mineralogy) The common mineral iron disulfide (FeS2), of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system.
(usually as a plural: pyrites ) Any metallic-looking sulphide, such as the above, which is the most common.
(usually as a plural: pyrites ) Any metal dichalcogenide that is isostructural to the common mineral.
(obsolete) skilled
* 1820 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 7, page 668)
As a noun pyrite
is .As an adjective perite is
(obsolete) skilled.pyrite
English
Noun
(en noun)- Copper diselenide can occur both as a marcasite and a pyrite .