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Definition of Adamantine

Adamantine
Adamantine Ad`a*man"tine, a. [L. adamantinus, Gr. ?.] 1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. 2. (Min.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Meaning of Adamantine from wikipedia

- up adamantine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adamantine may refer to: Adamant or adamantine, a generic name for a very hard material Adamantine (veneer)...
- Adamantine spar is a silky brown variety of corundum. It has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale. Yogo sapphire "Adamantine Spar". Archived from the original...
- Adamantine is a veneer developed by The Celluloid Manufacturing Company of New York City, covered by U.S. Patent number 232,037, dated September 7, 1880...
- adamant or adamantine is mentioned eight times. First in Book 1, Satan is hurled "to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains and penal...
- as the specimen is rotated). A list of such phenomena is given below. Adamantine minerals possess a superlative[clarification needed] lustre, which is...
- on the English noun and adjective adamant (and the derived adjective adamantine) added to the neo-Latin suffix "-ium". The adjective adamant has long...
- suit, and discover that Gargarensis is attempting to ram open a large, adamantine door inside of Hades, leading to Tartarus. After destroying the ram, Gargarensis...
- in color, though it occasionally occurs in crystals with a nonmetallic adamantine luster. It resembles quartz in its symmetry. It exhibits birefringence...
- The metal called adamantine then controls the villains in subduing Wolverine so that it can replace his adamantium with adamantine. Silas Burr is a mutant...
- adamantine crystals, although in many cases are poorly terminated. Crystals are of a bright hyacinth-red color, translucent, and have an adamantine to...