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Baldur's Gate 3 became the best-selling game on both Steam and GOG.com on the day of its early access launch. [89] On Steam, the game had about 537,000 concurrent players on release day and peaked at 875,000 two weeks after release. [90] [91] [92] It sold more than 2.5 million copies during its early access phase. [93]
Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide Adamantine ... Adamantine spar is a silky brown variety of corundum. It has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale. [1]
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
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]
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]
Harpe, an adamantine sword used by the hero Perseus to decapitate Medusa. Sword of Damocles, a huge sword hung above the throne where Damocles sat, it was held at the pommel only by a single hair of a horse's tail. Sword of justice, in Themis right hand, she is seen to have a sword that faces downward. This sword represents punishment.
Name Source Notes Adamant / Adamantine : Greek mythology Adamant has long meant any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance and, formerly, a legendary stone or mineral of impenetrable hardness and many other properties, often identified with diamond or lodestone. [1]
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.