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Pyro (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse Pyro, Ohio, United States; USS Pyro, two U.S. Navy ammunition ships Short for pyrotechnics; Slang for a person afflicted with pyromania, the inability to resist the impulse to deliberately start fires
The King Wolf, pyrography on olive wood by Roberto Frangioni Piroritrattista Framàr. Pyrography or pyrogravure is the free handed art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker.
Pyrotechnic gerbs used in the entertainment industry. Pyrotechnics is the science and craft of creating such things as fireworks, safety matches, oxygen candles, explosive bolts and other fasteners, parts of automotive airbags, as well as gas-pressure blasting in mining, quarrying, and demolition.
Internals of a pyroelectric sensor. Pyroelectricity (from Greek: pyr (πυρ), "fire" and electricity) is a property of certain crystals which are naturally electrically polarized and as a result contain large electric fields. [1]
Pyrolysis is most commonly used in the treatment of organic materials. It is one of the processes involved in charring of the wood [2] or pyrolysis of biomass. In general, pyrolysis of organic substances produces volatile products and leaves char, a carbon-rich solid residue.
The name is often abbreviated to MICC or MI cable, and colloquially known as pyro (because the original manufacturer and vendor for this product in the UK was a company called Pyrotenax). A similar product sheathed with metals other than copper is called mineral-insulated metal-sheathed (MIMS) cable.
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Painting of a medieval pyrotechnician by Joseph Furttenbach (1665) Pyrotechnicians are people who are responsible for the safe storage, handling, and functioning of pyrotechnics and pyrotechnic devices.