pyrotechny
Example Sentences
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There is no pyrotechny in the writing — just compassion and shrewd insight.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2014
Not until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances.
From Time Magazine Archive
In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length the discharge of a cannon summoned the admirers of pyrotechny to witness a display of their art.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
On this head, that of the application of chemistry to pyrotechny, we claim so much originality, as, so far as we know, to have been the first, who applied the principles of chemistry....
From James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 by Smith, Edgar Fahs
