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<chemistry> Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined by the use of the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena, the degree of fusibility, flame colouration, etc.
Origin: Pyro- + Gr. To know.
(01 Mar 1998)
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