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In fiction, Adamant is referred to in the film Forbidden Planet (as "adamantine steel"), many books (such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Faerie Queene, Gulliver's Travels, His Dark Materials, The Lord of the Rings, Mathilda by Mary Shelley, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) and many games (such as Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy and ...
The word is a pseudo-Latin neologism (real Latin: adamans, from original Greek ἀδάμας [=indomitable]; adamantem [Latin accusative]) based on the English noun and adjective adamant (and the derived adjective adamantine) added to the neo-Latin suffix "-ium".
Adamantine may refer to: Adamant or adamantine, a generic name for a very hard material; Adamantine (veneer), a patented celluloid veneer; Adamantine lustre, a property of some minerals; Adamantine spar, a mineral; Adamantine, a 2018 album by Burgerkill "Adamantine", a 1996 song by Thirty Ought Six, released as Mute Records 196
Baldur's Gate is a series of role-playing video games set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. The series has been divided into two sub-series, known as the Bhaalspawn Saga and the Dark Alliance, both taking place mostly within the Western Heartlands, but the Bhaalspawn Saga extends to Amn and Tethyr.
Adamantane is an organic compound with formula C 10 H 16 or, more descriptively, (CH) 4 (CH 2) 6.Adamantane molecules can be described as the fusion of three cyclohexane rings. The molecule is both rigid and virtually stress-free.
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, for the process of cementing a celluloid veneer or coating to a substrate such as a wood case.
Xeon E5-2600 series CPUs, aimed at dual-socket servers. Also code-named Sandy Bridge-EP. Part of the 32 nm Sandy Bridge family. Reference unknown. 2010 Jackson: Technology Hyper-threading technology, Intel's term for simultaneous multithreading, introduced in the Foster MP Xeon processor. Possibly Jackson, Mississippi, or US president Andrew ...
The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: . 1. d4 f5. Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the middlegame on White's kingside; however, it also weakens Black's kingside to an extent (especially the e8–h5 diagonal). [1]