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pyro-

 
Dictionary: pyro-
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  1. Fire; heat: pyrotechnic.
  2. Relating to the action of fire or heat: pyrography.
  3. Fever: pyrogen.
  4. Derived from an acid by the loss of a water molecule: pyrosulfuric acid.

[New Latin, from Greek puro-, from pūr, fire.]


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  1. Fire; heat: pyrophobia.
  2. Relating to the action of fire or heat: pyrolysis.
  3. Fever: pyrogen.
  4. Derived from an acid by the loss of a water molecule: pyrophosphoric acid.
 
 

 

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