obsidian
noun/əbˈsɪdiən/
/əbˈsɪdiən/
[uncountable]- a type of dark rock that looks like glass and comes from volcanoesWord Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin obsidianus, error for obsianus, from Obsius, the name of the discoverer of a similar stone.
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