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obsidian
/əbˈsɪd.i.ən/
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What does obsidian mean?
noun
- A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.
- A slightly bluish black, the color of obsidian glass.
adjective
- Black.
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Their surface and the ground around is thickly strewn with fragments of pottery, obsidian knives, and other small relics.
A mountain of very pure glass, obsidian, two hundred feet high, has lately been found in the Yellow-stone region.
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The third variety of obsidian of the Peak is the most remarkable of the whole, from its connexion with pumice-stone.
“Ten cents for any common perfect one, fifty for revolvers, a dollar for obsidian, and whatever is right for enormous big ones.”
Sea-shells from the Gulf, pearls from the Atlantic, and obsidian from Mexico, have also been found side by side in their mounds.