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adj. - Produced under conditions involving intense heat; Produced by or producing fever.

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  • The fragmentation of these pyrogenic communities and suppression of natural fire has resulted in changes to plant species composition and diversity.
  • This, however, is not sufficient to establish the pyrogenic origin of all crystallized paraffine, as crystals can be obtained from the amorphous residues by distillation...
  • Then, through a weird chain of events, I suddenly remembered pyrogenic lives out in San Francisco now.
  • The combined capacity for siloxane and pyrogenic silica is planned to be approximately 200,000 metric tons per year.
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