pyrolyse
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- pyrolyze (US)
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pyrolyse (third-person singular simple present pyrolyses, present participle pyrolysing, simple past and past participle pyrolysed)
- (intransitive, chemistry) To undergo pyrolysis.
- (transitive, chemistry) To decompose or transform a substance by subjecting it to heat.
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Noun edit
pyrolyse f (plural pyrolyses)
- pyrolysis (decomposition of a material or compound due to heat where there is no oxygen or other reagents)
Verb edit
pyrolyse
- inflection of pyrolyser:
Further reading edit
- “pyrolyse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.