WordNet
n. a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color [syn: pyrite, fool's gold]
Usage examples of "iron pyrite".
She remembered the glittering nodules of iron pyrite she had found and put in her amulet.
Ayla reached for her amulet and felt for the fifth object she carried in it now: a piece of black manganese dioxide nestled in the small pouch along with the three nodules of iron pyrite stuck together, a red-stained oval of mammoth ivory, the fossil cast of a gastropod, and a chunk of red ochre.
She held the three shiny nodules of iron pyrite, stuck together, tight in her fist.
As Ayla walked toward Nezzie, she struck the iron pyrite with flint, drawing a bright spark, then she gave her the stone.
It was Ayla's adventitious combination of flint and iron pyrite that created the spark which could be made into fire.
Ayla had fluffed up a small mound of fuzzy fireweed tops as tinder and had a piece of iron pyrite in her left hand and a flint striker in her right, but it wasn't obvious.
Ayla got out the iron pyrite and flint and gathered tinder and kindling.
It wasn't just one rock, but three small nodules of iron pyrite stuck together.
I heard the strike of two small pieces of iron pyrite on one another, taken from the Forkbeard's belt wallet, and saw a scattering of sparks.