obsidian's Usage Examples:

At the present time obsidian is sometimes cut and polished as an ornamental stone, but its softness (H 5 to 5.

It was sensual, dark and cool: black walls and obsidian wood flooring covered by jewel-toned rugs, mahogany California King bed with the finest maroon silk sheets and a dark gray comforter so soft, it was like sleeping in a cloud.

They perform complicated surgical operations with an obsidian knife or a shark's tooth.

Large areas are overlain with trachyte, basalt, obsidian, tuff and pumice.

It is probable that the acropolis of Carales was occupied even in prehistoric times; but more abundant traces of prehistoric settlements (pottery and fragments of obsidian, also kitchen middens, containing bones of animals and shells of molluscs used for human food) have been found on the Capo S.

Breakfast was on the magic obsidian tray next to the bed.

Both Great and Little Ararat consist entirely of volcanic rocks, chiefly andesites and pyroxene andesites, with some obsidian.

Distraught, she rolled over to find the first surprise of the day on the block of stone that acted as a nightstand: an obsidian tray of fruit and fresh pastries.

Iron was not known, but copper and tin ores were mined, and the metals combined into bronze of much the same alloy as in the Old World, of which hatchet blades and other instruments were made, though their use had not superseded that of obsidian and other sharp stone flakes for cutting, shaving, 'c.

The early printed editions of Pliny erroneously named the discoverer Obsidius, and the rock obsidianus.

Synonyms:

volcanic glass,

Antonyms:

None