PYROLYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pyrolysis mean? 

• PYROLYSIS (noun)
  The noun PYROLYSIS has 1 sense:

1. transformation of a substance produced by the action of heat

  Familiarity information: PYROLYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYROLYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transformation of a substance produced by the action of heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("pyrolysis" is a kind of...):

shift; transformation; transmutation (a qualitative change)

Derivation:

pyrolytic (resulting from pyrolysis)

 Context examples 

Benzo(b)fluoranthene is primarily found in gasoline exhaust, tobacco and cigarette smoke, coal tar, soot, amino acids and fatty acid pyrolysis products.

(Benzo[b]fluoranthene, NCI Thesaurus)

Basic studies on the etiologic effects of dietary macronutrients such as fat, vitamins and proteins; food mutagens and carcinogens formed during cooking; carcinogenic compounds and other substances closely associated with food preparation such as free radicals, fibers, and pyrolysis products; and digestive tract mutagens which form as a result of compound biodegradation, biotransformation, etc. The etiology of cancer resulting from deficiencies in the availability of various micronutrients, vitamins, metals, etc., is also of interest.

(Nutritional Carcinogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

Benz(a)anthracene is primarily found in gasoline and diesel exhaust, tobacco and cigarette smoke, coal tar and coal tar pitch, coal combustion emissions, charcoal-broiled foods, amino acids, fatty acids and carbohydrate pyrolysis products, wood and soot smoke, and creosote, asphalt and mineral oils.

(Benz[a]anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)