PYRORTHITE, noun A mineral little known, resembling orthite, but very different from it, for it burns in the flame of the blowpipe like charcoal; whereas orthite melts. pyrorthite is in black plates, thin and almost parallel.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.