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2. Lustre (mineralogy) - Wikipedia

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   Adamantine minerals possess a superlative [clarification needed] lustre, which is most notably seen in diamond. [1] Such minerals are transparent or translucent, and have a high refractive index (of 1.9 or more). [2] Minerals with a true adamantine lustre are uncommon, with examples including cerussite, zircon, and cubic zirconia. [2]

3. Crocoite - Wikipedia

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   Crocoite is commonly found as large, well-developed prismatic adamantine crystals, although in many cases are poorly terminated. Crystals are of a bright hyacinth-red color, translucent, and have an adamantine to vitreous lustre. On exposure to UV light some of the translucency and brilliancy is lost.

4. Cerussite - Wikipedia

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   The mineral may be readily recognized by its characteristic twinning, in conjunction with the adamantine lustre and high specific gravity. It dissolves with effervescence in dilute nitric acid. A blowpipe test will cause it to fuse very readily, and gives indications for lead. [5]

5. Adamantine - Wikipedia

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   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

6. Cinnabar - Wikipedia

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   Cinnabar is generally found in a massive, granular, or earthy form and is bright scarlet to brick-red in color, though it occasionally occurs in crystals with a nonmetallic adamantine luster. [12] [13] It resembles quartz in its symmetry. It exhibits birefringence, and it has the second-highest refractive index of any mineral. [14]

7. Adamantium - Wikipedia

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   Adamant and the literary form adamantine occur in works such as The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, Gulliver's Travels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Lord of the Rings, [4] and the film Forbidden Planet (as "adamantine steel"). All these uses predate the use of adamantium in Marvel's comics. [4]

8. Adamantine spar - Wikipedia

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   Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Adamantine spar is a silky brown variety of corundum.

9. Proustite - Wikipedia

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   The color is scarlet-vermilion and the luster adamantine; crystals are transparent and very brilliant, but on exposure to light they soon become dull black and opaque. The streak is scarlet, the hardness 2 to 2.5, [5] and the specific gravity 5.57. Its transparency differs from specimen to specimen, but most are opaque or translucent. [6]