Noun:

అబిడియన్,

obsidian's Usage Examples:

instruments with sharpened obsidian resembling modern day scalpels, knives, trephines, etc.

lithic industry of flint and obsidian, industry of bone (awls, needles, spatulas) and ceramics.

night winds, hurricanes, the north, the earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war, and strife.

Perlite is an amorphous volcanic glass that has a relatively high water content, typically formed by the hydration of obsidian.

Ixtlilton was a gentle god, who emanated from an obsidian mask which brought darkness and peaceful sleep to children.

stone tools are made from cryptocrystalline materials such as chert or flint, radiolarite, chalcedony, obsidian, basalt, and quartzite via a process.

burnished, red-washed shards of pottery (some with incision decoration), arrowheads, sickle blades with coarse denticulation, obsidian, basalt rubber and.

At the end of the burial rites several layers of flint and obsidian chippings were scattered around the tomb.

, obsidian), with volcanic glass being non-crystalline (amorphous), and having a glass-like.

This is the main source of obsidian found in northwestern British Columbia.

The central lava dome was erupted from degassed material and is made up of pumice and obsidian of the same composition.

inspect the depth of penetration of water vapor into chipped obsidian (volcanic glass) artifacts.

Also known by the lithologic term "marekanite", this variety of obsidian occurs as subrounded to subangular.

Synonyms:

volcanic glass,