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  2. Lustre (mineralogy) - Wikipedia

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    Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. The word traces its origins back to the Latin lux , meaning "light", and generally implies radiance, gloss, or brilliance.

  3. 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]

  4. Mineral - Wikipedia

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    The carbon allotropes diamond and graphite have vastly different properties; diamond is the hardest natural substance, has an adamantine lustre, and belongs to the isometric crystal family, whereas graphite is very soft, has a greasy lustre, and crystallises in the hexagonal family. This difference is accounted for by differences in bonding.

  5. Christite - Wikipedia

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    Christite has an adamantine luster and leaves behind an orange streak. [3] Its crystal system is monoclinic with possible crystal classes of twofold symmetry, mirror plane symmetry, and twofold with a mirror plane. This means it can have radial symmetry, mirror plane symmetry, or mirror plane symmetry perpendicular to the two-fold axis. [5]

  6. Zircon - Wikipedia

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    Transparent zircon is a well-known form of semi-precious gemstone, favored for its high specific gravity (between 4.2 and 4.86) and adamantine luster. Because of its high refractive index (1.92) it has sometimes been used as a substitute for diamond, though it does not display quite the same play of color as a diamond.

  7. 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

  8. 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]

  9. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    It was apparently discovered by the fictional Thomas Kyle, who was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his discovery, [10] and it is a parody on bureaucracy of scientific establishments and on descriptions of newly discovered chemical elements. Administrontium Scientific in-joke: Similar to Administratium and a variation of the joke. It ...

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