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Adamantite: Various A metal ore in many fictional universes. In Final Fantasy it is used to make armor; its source is in another world; it can contain great amounts of energy. In World of Warcraft, it is a rare ore used to make weapons and armor of uncommon, rare and epic
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]
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In John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, adamant or adamantine is mentioned eight times. First in Book 1, Satan is hurled "to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire" (lines 47–48). Three times in Book 2 the gates of hell are described as being made of adamantine (lines 436, 646 and 853).
[95] [96] Homages to Dwarf Fortress appear in World of Warcraft. [41] In March 2012, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City exhibited Dwarf Fortress among other games selected to depict the history of video gaming. [97] As new updates are made available, the Museum of Modern Art instantly downloads them and archives them in their server. [98]
The color of pyrargyrite is usually greyish-black and the lustre metallic-adamantine; large crystals are opaque, but small ones and thin splinters are deep ruby-red by transmitted light, hence the name, from the Greek pyr and argyros, "fire-silver" in allusion to color and silver content, given by E. F. Glocker in 1831. The streak is purplish ...
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
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