obsidian

[Ob*sid·i*an]

Obsidian is a type of black or dark glass formed from cooling lava. So if you find a shiny, hard, dark piece of glass next time you’re hanging around a volcano, it’s probably a piece of obsidian.

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A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.

Noun
acid or granitic glass; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces


n.
A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.


Obsidian

Ob*sid"i*an , n. [L. Obsidianus lapis, so named, according to Pliny, after one Obsidius, who discovered it in Ethiopia: cf.F. obsidiane, obsidienne. The later editions of Pliny read Obsianus lapis, and Obsius, instead of Obsidianus lapis, and Obsidius.] A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters. &hand; In a thin section it often exhibits a fluidal structure, marked by the arrangement of microlites in the lines of the flow of the molten mass.

A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.

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