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(əb·sid′ē·ən, ob-) noun
Α glassy, volcanic rock, usually black and having the composition of rhyolite but containing few or no individualized crystals. [<L obsidianus, alter. of obsianus, after Obsius, a Roman said by Pliny to be its discoverer]
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